Kreutzer Sonata
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 in-depth, first-person description of jealous rage.
"Take that "Kreutzer Sonata", for example, take its first movement, the presto: can one really allow it to be played in a drawing-room full of women in low-cut dresses? To be played, and then followed by a little light applause,-- and talk about the latest society gossip? --The generation of all that feeling and energy, which are quite inappropriate--and which aren't allowed any outlet, can't have anything but a harmful effect. On me--that piece had the most shattering effect.”
