How Mrs. Tolstoy Answered Her Husband
Of Sofiya Tolstoy (pictured), the wife of novelist Leo Tolstoy, Sophie Pinkham writes: ‘There are two novellas by Sofiya: “Whose Fault?,” the story of a jealous husband who murders his innocent wife, and “Song Without Words,” about a depressed married woman who becomes obsessed with a composer and his music, and eventually checks herself into a ‘nerve clinic.’ “Song Without Words” is a response to [her husband’s] “The Kreutzer Sonata“; “Whose Fault?” is a systematic rebuttal.‒
