The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy app for iPhone and iPad


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Entertainment Book
Developer: Xu Cun Lu
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.01, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 27 Oct 2010
App size: 1.98 Mb

The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work 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 cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes.