Balestrini “Art and Marriage"

N hated the later period of Tolstoy, but loved AK. He thought that the same great man was speaking in both of these, but when he chose to be a simple philosopher he was neglecting and forsaking the great artist that he was. 63 N felt chagrin with T using literature as a didactic tool. 63 T got the inspiration for the story from a friend that was told the story on a train like in the story. T also was with him and heard the KS played and decided to combine the two in to one story. 64 T heard about othe writers' views on marriage and sexuality in marraige with childbirth. The need to be clebate during the pregnancy. All of these came into his work and influenced him. T wanted the work to be useful to people and hoped that it would be. Nabokov never had this aim. 66 Similarieties betewen T's and N's stories. 67 Pozdneshev echoes T belifs that music can bring about feelings that cannot be controlled and thus music should be controlled in certain cases by the authorities so that it doesn't have a harmfull affect on people. 71 It seems to be no more than a stimulous - response operation and people cannot help but react in a certain way. Nabokov gives people the chance to involve ethics with aestethics and not react in a proscribed way. 72