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Andrew Wachtel explains in his article History and autobiography in Tolstoy how literary genres are merged to achieved the goal which Tolstoy sought: truth. The technique employed by the Russian writer is highly interesting, he melts autobiographical and fictional elements in a work which results neither biographical not fictional. The difference between fictional and non-fictional isn't a problem for Tolstoy who was concerned just with truth and the display of the universal. Watchel gives a wonderful example, the relation between Anna Karenina and A Confession. The latter was written after the former and seems, according to Watchel, an ending for the great novel. The idea of marriage in A Confession is linked to the character of Levin in Anna Karenina. In fact it's difficult to differ from the thoughts of the writer and his works, and I want to point out here such difficulty regarding The Kreutzer Sonata and What is Art?. The final moral claims in Tolstoy's essay reminds the plot of the novel, moreover, The Kreutzer Sonata seems to be a graphical example of the essay. According to Tolstoy, the perversion of art by the upper-class leads to a perversion of the habits, and that's what we see in The Kreutzer Sonata, music taken as an excuse for adultery.There's another point in these relations between Tolstoy's thoughts and fictions, that's "honesty". In fact, Tolstoy in his essay affirms that the main cause for such a perversion is the artificiality of the "artist". Tolstoy remains faithful to this idea as he gives expression to his believes, he's honest, he's a true artist. Therefore, the close proximity between real life and fiction seems to be justified in Tolstoy's theory of art.