The Death of Ivan Ilyich & The Kreutzer Sonata (eBook)

Two Psychological Novellas

Leo Tolstoy (Autor)

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2019
177 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
405-766418847-2 (EAN)

Infos

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" – Ivan Ilyich lives a carefree life that is "most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Like everyone he knows, he spends his life climbing the social ladder. Enduring marriage to a woman whom he often finds too demanding, he works his way up to be a magistrate. While hanging curtains for his new home one day, he falls awkwardly and hurts his side. Though he does not think much of it at first, he begins to suffer from a pain in his side. As his discomfort grows, his behavior towards his family becomes more irritable.
"The Kreutzer Sonata" is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife: in his analysis, the root causes for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes.

Autor

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family, he is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2019
• Übersetzer: Benjamin Tucker, Aylmer Maude
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Schlagworte: 19th-century Russia • Author Leo Tolstoy • Crime and Punishment • dead souls • Eugene Onegin • existential crisis • family dynamics • Franz Kafka • James Joyce • Jealousy and obsession • John Steinbeck • literary classics • moral dilemmas • philosophical fiction • Pride and Prejudice • Russian Literature • Social commentary • the song of achilles • thin air • Wuthering Heights