Ergebnis für "Sonata" in Literatur & Belletristik

Jean-Pierre’s relentless pursuit of Eden has paid off. But can he keep her safe? Russians lurk within the shadows. Dead bodies pile. There are new enemies on the board, and it all goes down in Paris.

Pubblicati rispettivamente nel 1889 e nel 1886 "La sonata a Kreutzer" e "La morte di Ivan Il'ic" sono i romanzi brevi più famosi di Tolstoj, scritti dopo la crisi spirituale e la conseguente conversione al Cristianesimo dell'autore. "La sonata a Kreutzer" non è altro che il racconto di quello che oggi verrebbe definito un "femminicidio". "La morte di Ivan Il'ic" è un romanzo incentrato sul rapporto dell'uomo con l'idea della morte, e, per conseguenza, sul senso della vita.

Leo Tolstoy: The Novellas includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 10 greatest novellas in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.

Five hundred years have passed, and Earth is but a distant memory, a story told to children. Bellatrix is humanity’s home now, as well as its future. When the alien race responsible for mankind’s rescue returned, humanity found that its rescue came at a price—it had to serve its alien masters to repay that act, and the Chosen were formed.

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy's then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.

Clara Becker is a supremely gifted composer - a talent of little to use to a woman in 1830s England. Her compositions only have worth when they are published under her brother's name, yet this deception barely enables them to scrape out a living in the poorest quarter of London. Meets the Master... Darien Reynard, the most celebrated musician in Europe, pursues success with a single-minded intensity.

In seguito a un'accesa discussione sul matrimonio e sui principi dell'amore, scoppiata in treno tra compagni di viaggio, un uomo confessa a uno sconosciuto la sua amara colpa. Dopo aver presentato alla moglie un affascinante e talentuoso violinista, assiste alla loro esecuzione della Sonata a Kreutzer di Beethoven.

Una magistrale novella che getta una nuova luce sulle convinzioni su amore e matrimonio, tale che ne fu per un certo tempo proibita la lettura. Il testo è completato da un’appedice in cui Tolstoj in persona risponde alle critiche che gli furono rivolte in proposito.
La lettura è completata dalla sonata di Beethoven da cui il titolo.

Sonata of the Soul is a collection of poetry expressing personal transformation, the beauty of the natural world, and the depths of spiritual awakening. Each poem bridges the mystical and the mundane, weaving elements of mysticism and personal memoir—drawing inspiration from Western science and Eastern philosophy, including Kundalini and Reiki. This collection encourages readers to find their own path to spiritual illumination, offering a sanctuary for contemplation and enlightenment.

One of Tolstoy’s most important shorter works, The Kreutzer Sonata presents a problematic view of the relationship between the sexes and promotes abstinence as the solution. Pozdnyshev jealously observes the intimacy that emerges between his wife and a violin player. Haunted by The Kreutzer Sonata, over which they bonded, it plays round and round in Pozdnyshev’s head driving him to distraction and to an unquenchable rage.

On the New Year holiday, Widow Hazel opens her home on a Northland beach to her adult children - Sully, Anthony, twins Molly and Joe, and their families. But like with all families, there is bad history. Molly is dreading having to spend time with her mother, but she is pleased her son will see his cousins and is looking forward to catching up with her brothers…Joe in particular. A lot can happen over the course of a few days under the summer sun, as family tensions intensify and relationships become heightened.

The central theme of Dorothy Edwards' writing mirrors her own life, that of the marginalization of women and the struggle of women to lead independent lives. In Winter Sonata, there is also the seeming inability for the men and women of the novel to connect in any deep way, reflecting Edward’s own lack of empathy.

Su obra narrativa y dramática es una de las cumbres de la literatura española.

Utilizando el marco de esa cierta tristeza que el otoño representa y que a él también le invade, el marqués de Bradomín se dirige a un pazo, casa típica gallega, en la que está muriendo Concha, mujer a la que amó en el pasado. Ella sigue enamorada de él en el presente. El sentimiento de melancolía que evoca el otoño es el mismo de ese amor pasado que se recuerda de forma idealizada, sin reparar en los sufrimientos que produjo, que se han diluido con el paso del tiempo.

El marqués de Bradomín siendo un hombre joven viaja por mar desde Londres a Mexico, para olvidarse de unos amores desafortunados y allí conoce a la niña Chole, una hermosa criolla de la que se enamora perdidamente. Todo su interés se obsesiona en intentar seducirla. Cuando pasan su primera noche juntos, ella le confiesa que está intentando escapar del que era su padre y amante, el general Bermúdez. Advierte a Bradomín que si les pilla les matará a los dos.

Es con esta sonata que Valle-Inclán concluye su tetralogía acerca de las historias del Marqués de Bradomín, al que define diciendo: "Eres el más admirable de los don juanes: feo, católico y sentimental". Ya en la última parte de su vida, cansado y tras unos breves amores con una de las damas de honor de la reina, por encargo del rey carlista marcha Bradomín en busca de un monje. Es herido y tienen que cortarle un brazo. En su convalecencia le cuida una niña de 14 años más bien fiella.

Sonata de Primavera es una historia ambientada en Italia, durante la juventud del Marqués de Bradomín, una especie de Don Juan, un aprendiz de Casanova, que relata en las Sonatas sus aventuras y desventuras. Del Valle Inclán nos entrega en Sonata de Primavera un producto inesperado, insólito, en el que cada frase, cada sustantivo es cincelado con el adjetivo adecuado para llevarnos a un final inesperado.

In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have also vanished recently - all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company.

One of the world’s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex - a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.

De Moor has built her latest novel around the Kreutzersonate by the Czech composer, Leos Janácek, who, in turn, based his string quartet on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. In Tolstoy’s story, a man and a woman are playing the sonata Ludwig van Beethoven composed for the French violinist and composer Rudolphe Kreutzer. The two fall in love as they play, which poisons the husband’s mind with jealousy, so that he kills his wife.