Download or read book The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Annotated) written by Leo Leo Tolstoy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes.