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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Knapp, Liza

Titel

Tolstoy on Musical Mimesis: Platonic Aesthetics and Erotics in "The Kreutzer Sonata"

Ist Teil von

• Tolstoy studies journal, 1991-01, Vol.4, p.25-42

Ort / Verlag

Rochester, NY: Tolstoy Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata" begins as a dialogue: several people, gathered together in a train compartment drink beer-like tea and discuss love, marriage, and adultery in contemporary society. More specifically, Socrates, in his orderly description of the upbringing of the philosopher-ruler just before his discussion of sexual passion, describes how literature and music must be controlled by the state lest they, like sex, corrupt by placing people's souls in a state of irrational frenzy and causing them to lose self-control. When he discusses Plato's views on art, Tolstoy lumps him together with early Christians, Buddhists and strict Moslems and argues that categorically rejecting art, as they did, is wrong. [...]somewhat later in What Is Art?