Monologue

Lisa Monologue from The Live Corpse

From The Live Corpse by Leo, graf Tolstoy

female · anguished · 1:14 min

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What--what is it? KARÉNIN. This is awful! LISA (takes hold of letter) Read! KARÉNIN (reads) "Lisa and Victor, I address myself to you both. I won't lie and call you 'dear' or anything else. I cannot master the feeling of bitterness and reproach (I reproach myself, but all the same it is painful) when I think of you and of your love and happiness. I know everything. I know that though I was the husband, I have--by a series of accidents--been in your way. (C'est moi qui suis l'intrus.) (22) But all the same, I cannot restrain a feeling of bitterness and coldness towards you. I love you both in theory, especially Lisa, Lisette! But actually I am more than cold towards you. I know I am wrong, but cannot change." (22) It is I who am the intruder.

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30s · sadness · love · betrayal · identity · bitterness

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