Kreutzer Sonata

"After all, she took possession of me against my will!" - exclaims the unfortunate Irtenev. The author left him a choice between suicide and the murder of the one that has taken . Such is the reckoning for premarital sex, for the "that everyone does." For in the eyes of the graph-philosopher "to do how everyone" means to be dead, not to wake up to true life.
The most jealous Lev Nikolaevich fought, of course, with the lust of the loins. In this sense, the story is autobiographical (even the surname Irtenev "sends" to Nikolenka Irteniev from "childhood") And the count also tried to kill other desires in order to resurrect, - refused meat food, from luxury, from everything that attracts to the obsession of life. But how to deal with the obsession itself? "Against my will, I took possession of me" ...
The wife of Tolstoy Sofya Andreevna hated this thing. Nevertheless, it was she who did everything possible and impossible so that this story, prohibited by censorship and causing the wrath of the most “secret ruler of Russia ", the Prosecutor of the Holy Synod K.P. Pobedonostsev, saw the light