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The book opens with two passengers on a train, we the readers, like the protagonist’s (Pozdnyshev), companion are taken on a journey into the man’s failing marriage and finally its ending in a bloody murder.
Tolstoy asks a question: Can anything holy be found in carnal love? Can a marriage truly be a meeting of the souls or only a meager excuse to exercise a man’s base animal instincts?