Train journeys in C19 Russian literature

[Svetlana Grenier]

Dear Rolbert,

Since you said obvious is OK, the first thing that comes to mind is
Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata" (confession in a train compartment).  There
may have been some confessions exchanged between Anna and Countess Vronsky
during their trip to Moscow at the beginning of AK, but we don't see them;
we just hear that they spoke "about their sons." In that vein, in AK
Karenin and Levin share a compartment (in part IV), but no confessions take
place.
Then there is Rogozhin who tells Prince Myshkin of his love for Nastassia
Filippovna on a train, but I don't remember whether there is a compartment
or not.

All the best,
Svetlana

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am posting this on behalf of the editors of Hidden Europe, an excellent
> small magazine.  They are wanting to write an article about trains in C19
> Russian literature and are especially interested in examples of train
> compartments being used as confessionals
>

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