Leo Tolstoy's works are not only masterpieces of world literature, but also mirrors of their time, of the socio-cultural transformations which took place in Tsarist Russia; it is from this perspective that, in this work, this great writer’s production is analysed. In particular, the author examines the evolution of the institution of marriage in the second half of the 19th century in Russia, starting from the reading of Family Happiness , Anna Karenina and The Kreutzer Sonata. If Family happiness preludes to the crisis of the arranged marriage, its implosion is beautifully described in Anna Karenina . Anna announces the definitive death of this institution when she defies the society of her time by not hiding her adultery and, on the contrary, by exhibiting it and trying to legitimize it.The Kreutzer Sonata, lastly, demonstrates the successful overcoming of the aristocratic marriage model, replaced by the bourgeois one.
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Book Title
L’istituzione del matrimonio in Tolstoj
Book Subtitle
Felicità familiare, Anna Karenina, La sonata a Kreutzer
Authors
Maria Zalambani
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
210
Publication Year
2015
Copyright Information
© 2015 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-756-2
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-755-5
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-756-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-376-3
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679