Cracer Sonata

In the works of Tolstoy, the events in themselves are always interesting, but the manifestations of the mental life of the heroes - the ability (or inability) of the soul to love, suffer, renew. This was noticed by the contemporaries of the writer: he occupies “more than more - the mental process itself, its forms, its laws, the dialectic of the soul, in order to express himself a certain term” - this was determined by N.G. Chernyshevsky essence of the artistic discovery of Tolstoy. That is why in his books a series of everyday life, deprived of all literary entity, is no less significant, painful, dramatic for the hero than events of an exceptional nature (war, grandiose battles, death) The present publication included such famous works of Tolstoy as “Two Hussars”, “Devil”, “Kreutzerov Sonata”, “Father Sergius”. Those contrasts and contradictions of the feelings that heroes experience become the subject of image of a writer, obsessed with the idea of ​​moral improvement of man, family and peace