![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, this analysis offers an interpretation of The Kreutzer Sonata as bestiary one which offers a moral taxonomy of creaturely life and creaturely love. ![]() This article identifies not only the “bestial” element of human sexuality in Tolstoy's story but also the array of animals which the author offers to ventriloquize a certain complex (and times confused) polemic about gender relations. The rather unhinged protagonist, Pozdnyshev, explains to his traveling companion and narrator: “Of all the passions, it is sexual, carnal love that is the strongest, the most malignant and the most unyielding” (48). Tolstoy's remarkably economical novella The Kreutzer Sonata manages to create one of the most intense, vivid, and thought-provoking portraits of jealousy in the canon, and is as disturbing to read today as it no doubt was in 1889. ![]()
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