The Kreutzer Sonata
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The Kreutzer Sonata is a controversial novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of jealousy, marriage, sexuality, and moral hypocrisy through a husband's confession of murdering his wife.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
films
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operas ⓘ stage plays ⓘ |
| author | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| censorship | subject to censorship in the Russian Empire ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
marital infidelity
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music ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Pozdnyshev’s wife
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a violinist friend of the couple ⓘ |
| controversyReason |
frank treatment of sex and marriage
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radical critique of marital relations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| criticizes |
bourgeois morality
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institution of marriage ⓘ sexual double standards ⓘ |
| genre |
controversial literature
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novella ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, by Ludwig van Beethoven ⓘ |
| literaryInfluenceOn | later discussions of marriage and sexuality in Russian literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 19th century literature ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
frame narrative
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unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
jealousy
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marriage ⓘ moral hypocrisy ⓘ sexuality ⓘ violence in marriage ⓘ |
| moralPerspective | ascetic view of sexuality ⓘ |
| movement | Tolstoyan moral philosophy ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person confession ⓘ |
| narrator | Pozdnyshev ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of destructive jealousy
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intense psychological monologue ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcern | relationship between love, sex, and morality ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A husband recounts how jealousy led him to murder his wife. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Pozdnyshev ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | controversial ⓘ |
| setting | Russian society in the 19th century ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata ⓘ |
| workOf | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
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