Oh, dear.
The eminent documentarian, Frederick Wiseman, has a new film out, "The Couple."
Examining the regrettably modern marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya
I had read Tolstoy before, but I didn’t know anything about his domestic life. Sophia has a couple of 800-page volumes of diaries, and she also wrote a couple of novels. And the point of the novels is the heroine’s wish for a normal relationship with a man where he talks to her, where they share responsibilities and the care of the children. She wants what I consider the normal participation of a husband, which, according to her, she never got.
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