In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has done half the women in the town, not realizing that her passion, once freed, will attach ...
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In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has done half the women in the town, not realizing that her passion, once freed, will attach to him so fiercely that Katerina will do anything to keep hold of him. Journalist and prose writer Nikolai Leskov is known for his powerful characterizations and the quintessentially Russian atmosphere of his stories.
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Katerina Lvovna has been married to a merchant more than twice her age. He asked for her hand and she accepted?not because she loved him or was attracted to him, but because she was poor and couldn?t afford to be choosy. But her new life as a rich woman attached to a traveling husband has left her bored and restless?dangerous qualities in a new bride.
The book speaks in spare outlines, detailing an amour fou that is all the more intense for its stark language and its graphic depictions of murder. One is struck with a terrible sense of inevitability while being led helplessly down the dark path this woman makes. In spite of its brevity (or because of it), this slim tale attains the towering tragedy present in works like ?Medea?. Are these people doomed by character, circumstance or fate? It is a book that almost compels you to read and re-read it, searching for any assurance in its bleak depiction of a yearning, ravenous heart.
