Cracer Sonata. Tolstoy L. N.

After all, she took possession of me against my will!? The unfortunate Irtenev exclaims. The author left him a choice between suicide and the murder of the one who "took possession." Such is the reckoning for premarital sex, for "what everyone is doing." For in the eyes of the graph-philosopher “to do like everyone else” means to be dead, not to wake up to true life. The most jealous of all, Lev Nikolaevich fought, of course, with the lust of 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 to print censorship and causing the anger of the most “secret ruler of Russia” of the chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod K.P. Pobedonostsev, saw the light.