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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostYes ..one of the most sinister figures in Conrad and that’s saying something. I don’t think James does “evil” as well.
P.S. JSTOR now offering 100 free articles a month with a simple registration! The opposite of evil... unless their aim is to get you hooked on scholarship and then charge you £££ a month...
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I ploughed through Tolstoy's (short) Kreutzer Sonata and one thought struck me. Perhaps someone who read the story with more enjoyment (and insight) than me could enlighten me? I was reading R3's BaL blurb on Janáček's SQ where it said: 'Composed in only nine days in 1923, Janáček's compact, emotionally supercharged String Quartet No 1 takes its title from Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella where a wife and her violinist lover play Beethoven’s 'Kreutzer' Sonata together before the jealous husband murders his adulterous wife.'
But, in Tolstoy the story of the suspicious, jealous husband is recounted to the hearers by - the suspicious, jealous husband. I didn't feel that even in his telling it was clear that there had been an adulterous affair between his wife and the violinist. He burst in on them and found them sitting at the piano talking. Did I miss something subtle? Janáček's 'retelling' might indeed have been deliberately clearer on the point.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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... 'adultery' in the sense of Matthew 5 -
27 Audistis quia dictum est antiquis: Non moechaberis. 28 Ego autem dico vobis: quia omnis qui viderit mulierem ad concupiscendum eam, jam moechatus est eam in corde suo.
"27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
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Good reply. It might fit with Tolstoy's own brand of Christianity too, though Pozdnyshev was perhaps lucky to get away with an acquittal on the basis of Matthew 5 in Russia.
Originally posted by vinteuil View Post.
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27 Audistis quia dictum est antiquis: Non moechaberis. 28 Ego autem dico vobis: quia omnis qui viderit mulierem ad concupiscendum eam, jam moechatus est eam in corde suo.
"27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Tevot View PostJust started "The Second Sleep" by Robert Harris, which has received mixed reviews. The Guardian considered it contemplative & thought provoking whilst the New York Times considered it lacking in tension and purpose - Ouch!! I wonder what camp I will be in once I've finished it
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