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| Source: Wikipedia.org "Kreutzer Sonata" by Rene Francois Xavier Prinet, 1901 |
What could be more
appropriate or wonderful than Kiss
for the letter K?
In 1889 Leo Tolstoy
created a novella entitled Kreutzer Sonata, in which forbidden discussions
of sexuality, love and lust, morality and immorality emerge.
Marriage, divorce, and love were examined in a conversation on a train with Pozdnyshev and other passengers.
Marriage, divorce, and love were examined in a conversation on a train with Pozdnyshev and other passengers.
He later marries and time
goes by with relative happiness and children.
He discovers his wife has started using contraceptives. There is a schism in the relationship and his
wife begins a relationship with a violinist (whose name is 15 letters
long).
This is the first movement of the sonata, lasting about 7 minutes.
Well, then....
They begin practicing
this challenging sonata, with the wife accompanying the violinist. Pozdnyshev discovers them in a passionate
kiss and kills the wife. The violinist
flees.
The Russian
Government prohibited Tolstoy's story to be published.
Portions of the story made their way to the United States where these chapters were published in the newspaper.
Portions of the story made their way to the United States where these chapters were published in the newspaper.
Not able to suppress free speech, President Theodore Roosevelt forbid
the U. S. Post Office to deliver any newspaper containing the story.
He called Tolstoy “…a sexual, moral pervert.”
He called Tolstoy “…a sexual, moral pervert.”
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| Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910 |
The title chosen by
Tolstoy was based upon Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9, (which is another story in itself)!
All this happened as
the result of an illicit kiss between a married woman and her lover.
A kiss is a powerful
thing.
