Resurrection 9781530465569 Leo Tolstoy Louise Maude Books
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“Resurrection” is a book by Leo Tolstoy written during the period of 1889—1899.
The translation by Louise Shanks Maude conveys the original meaning in brilliant detail. This translation of the book seems to be the best one ever done.
It tells the story of a nobleman overburdened with the sin he has committed. This sin concerns a young peasant woman whom he seduced and then left. He lives the ordinary life of a self-proud rich man until he encounters his former lover. The place where they see each other is the court, and the girl is being accused.
Leo Tolstoy criticized the Russian Orthodox Church in harsh terms for postponing the original Christian ideals to its own interests.
The Russian Ministry of Interior passed a circular order prohibiting the publication of any telegrams, news, and articles expressing sympathy with the writer and criticizing the Synod’s decision. In February 1901, the Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated Leo Tolstoy.
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Resurrection 9781530465569 Leo Tolstoy Louise Maude Books
Tolstoy's last major novel (1899) is his twilight indictment of the criminal justice and penal systems. The novel opens with the Russian prince Dmitri N. serving on a jury in a criminal trial of 3 peasants, a man and 2 women, accused of poisoning and robbing the deceased. Prince recognizes one of the accused women, named Ms. Maslova, as a young maid he deflowered when both were teens a decade earlier during his visit to his aunts' home. The head maid had fired Maslova, an educated peasant, after finding out she slept with the Prince. With nowhere else to turn, Maslova became a prostitute.Although the jury finds Maslova not guilty, an error in the jury's verdict form leaves her technically guilty of an act contributing to the death, and thus subject to mandatory imprisonment. Believing his actions directly caused Maslova's wayward path ultimately leading to the imprisonment, Prince N sets out on a course to overturn her conviction and have her freed. In the process, he talks with numerous other prisoners and learns of much unfairness, perceived and real, both specific to cases and generally resulting from being raised in a bad environment.
Regrettably, this novel wanes about halfway through when Tolstoy "tells" much more than he "shows," the novel becoming more of a scathing sermon, full of homilies and exhortations seeming to champion a sort of anarchist view of Christianity whereby no person can sit in judgment of any other (all of us being sinners).
Tolstoy remains my favorite novelist ever. Like all other humans, he was not perfect.
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Resurrection 9781530465569 Leo Tolstoy Louise Maude Books Reviews
A good introduction to Tolstoy if you don't want to take on War and Peace, but it's definitely not as good. The ending felt unfinished and a little vague and the characters were not as interesting as the ones in his more famous works. He seems to have a woman with a mustache in every one of his books (including this one) and it makes me laugh. Resurrection was Tolstoy's last novel. The whole novel is pushing a moral agenda very aggressively and he kind-of hits you over the head with it. I think this novel might have been based on a true story, though I can't say for sure where I heard that. Either way, thinking of it as a true story helps with balancing the extreme preachiness of it.
I hadn't read Tolstoy for about 28 years, and this story fascinated me from the beginning. The first two paragraphs seemed odd at the start, but when I finished the story, I went back to the beginning, read those opening words again and was overwhelmed by the emotion of those verses. A beautiful story.
Very interesting that the moral questions haven't changed in over 200 years especially as it pertains to incarceration for minor crimes or even false
imprisonment. Shines a light on the overzealous bureaucrats who have far too much say in our destiny.
Tolstoy's greatness is not just that he has profound understanding of persons' psychic but also of who society functions and how religion can either free or imprison humanity. What he said about Russian society over a hundred year ago remains true about Russia and all societies including our own.
Often overlooked in the shadows of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, but well worth the read.
A great book that you never hear about . This was a Classic ! He reaches such heights and desends to
such depths that its hard to compare it to any other classic . What a genius !
The story of the main character, Ivan Ivanovitch Nekhludoff is a reflection of Tolstoy himself. He was appalled by the mass destruction of war and became a pacifist, and Nekhludoff did also. He came to having a relationship with Christ and so did Nekhludoff. In other novels by Tolstoy the heroes of the stories had long, strong legs as did Tolstoy so there is some of Tolstoy in most of his main characters.
I think Tolstoy felt it important to impart a message of character versus writing novels to entertain his audience. Anyone who has read Anna Karenina or War and Peace should read this book because of the way it reveals what was truly important to Tolstoy. Other than that, it is an interesting story also.
Tolstoy's last major novel (1899) is his twilight indictment of the criminal justice and penal systems. The novel opens with the Russian prince Dmitri N. serving on a jury in a criminal trial of 3 peasants, a man and 2 women, accused of poisoning and robbing the deceased. Prince recognizes one of the accused women, named Ms. Maslova, as a young maid he deflowered when both were teens a decade earlier during his visit to his aunts' home. The head maid had fired Maslova, an educated peasant, after finding out she slept with the Prince. With nowhere else to turn, Maslova became a prostitute.
Although the jury finds Maslova not guilty, an error in the jury's verdict form leaves her technically guilty of an act contributing to the death, and thus subject to mandatory imprisonment. Believing his actions directly caused Maslova's wayward path ultimately leading to the imprisonment, Prince N sets out on a course to overturn her conviction and have her freed. In the process, he talks with numerous other prisoners and learns of much unfairness, perceived and real, both specific to cases and generally resulting from being raised in a bad environment.
Regrettably, this novel wanes about halfway through when Tolstoy "tells" much more than he "shows," the novel becoming more of a scathing sermon, full of homilies and exhortations seeming to champion a sort of anarchist view of Christianity whereby no person can sit in judgment of any other (all of us being sinners).
Tolstoy remains my favorite novelist ever. Like all other humans, he was not perfect.
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