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Book · 1889 · Fiction

The Kreutzer Sonata

Leo Tolstoy
Modern Library (Penguin Random House) · 95 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

On a night train, a man tells strangers how he came to kill his wife, then turns the confession into an assault on marriage and desire itself. Russia's censors suppressed it.

Genre
Realism
Medium
Novella
Setting
Russia
Time
1889Depicts Tsarist RussiaDepicts 1880s

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“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”

Alfred Kinsey