Morality and Sexual Revolution in ’’The Kreutzer Sonata’’ by Leo Tolstoy Cover Image

Moralitate și revoluție sexuală în ,,Sonata Kreutzer’’ de L.N. Tolstoi
Morality and Sexual Revolution in ’’The Kreutzer Sonata’’ by Leo Tolstoy

Author(s): Diana Mihaila
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Marriage; sexuality; abstinence; womanhood;

Summary/Abstract: The following article – Morality and Sexual Revolution in “The Kreutzer Sonata” by L. N. Tolstoy – is a straightforward analysis of the concept of love in relation to the writer’s beliefs and values, by exploring the nature of woman and the relationship between man and woman after marriage from a psychological perspective; given the multiple creative facets of Tolstoy, the current theme has been chosen in order to deepen the genius of Tolstoy, by discovering new meanings regarding the psychological and social dimensions; the purpose of the analysis is to demonstrate the real image of love in Russia’s 19th century, without being concealed in an inaccurate, cliché form that other writers tended to tackle before; the starting point is Pozdnyshev’s shocking, different vision of what love means, that will eventually lead to an original and decisive lifestyle.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 46-56
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian