The Kreutzer sonata variations : Lev Tolstoy's Novella and counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy / translated and edited by Michael R. Katz ; with a foreword by Ekaterina Tolstaya and an afterword by Andrey Tolstoy.
A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy's controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglect...
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Yale University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the Tolstoy family story contest / Michael R. Katz
- The story and counterstories. The Kreutzer sonata / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy ; Whose fault? ; Song without words / Sofiya Andreevna Tolstaya ; Chopin's prelude / Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
- The reflections. Ruminations on Tolstoy's The Kreuzter sonata ; Epilogue to The Kreutzer sonata / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy ; "The wife murderer" ; Letters (selection) ; Diary entries (selection) ; Diary entries (selection) ; My life (excerpts) / Sofiya Andreevna Tolstaya ; The truth about my father (excerpt) / Lev Lvovich Tolstoy ; Tolstoy: a life of my father (excerpt) / Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya
- Afterword / Andrey Tolstoy.