![]() He then relates how he used to visit prostitutes when he was young, and complains that women's dresses are designed to arouse men's desires. Convention dictates that two married people stay together, and initial love can quickly turn into hatred. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and points out that, if understood as an exclusive preference for one person, it often passes quickly. During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. ![]()
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