A review by assimbya
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy

2.0

I expected far better from the author of Anna Karenina than the bitter, both self-deprecating and self-righteous diatribe that was "The Kreutzer Sonata". Though I appreciate the work as a personal struggle to articulate philosophies that Tolstoy was attempting to work out within his own head, the judgmental, life-denying tenor of those philosophies left me with a bitter, unpleasant taste in my mouth.

However, a later story in the book, "The Forged Coupon", was far more thoughtful and thought provoking, though still a disappointment after the brilliance that was Anna Karenina. I am rather counting on War and Peace being better than the contents of this volume.