Resumo de Resurrection

Tolstoy's Resurrection is a complex novel of enlightenment. It's central story is the love story between nobleman Prince Nekhlyudov and the serving girl/prostitute/peasant girl Katusha Maslova. It is a story of Nekhlyudov's effort to redeem himself while restoring Maslova, who he seduced as a youthful philanderer. However, it is not just the story of this couple, retelling a story of many young couples (even Tolstoy himself as a youth was involved in a similar scenerio) this is the story of the whole of Russian society and the redemption of a whole society. The novel blends the themes of personal and societal injustices. Set among Moscow and Petersberg society, high society, middle society and low society, and the prison camps of Siberia, it is a powerful story of the spiritual journeys of individuals and a whole people.
Russian literature, as we know, is among the world great literatures, and certainly Tolstoy is among the best of the best. Almost all modern writers acknowledge Russian literature and Tolstoy also. Resurrection (1899) is about the conscience of a civilization and it is certainly relevant to American society and American civilization, its virtues and greatnesses, as well as flaws, and corruptions. It is would be good if a great American novelist would offer a similar analysis of the American spiritual character and its own need for transformation/resurrection and especially in these contemporary times. This story is true for every civilization. Outsiders are often able to look upon civilizations and easily perceive their vices and their virtues, but few of those within a civilization can do so. Usually these are the great novelists, the great poets, the great philosophers. And often these civilizations "destroy" them. How dare they. How dare they. But an honest and honorable introspection is always necessary. Tolstoy provides this for Russia and for the world. Certainly there are flaws in the novel, as with any novel, and certain contrivances to make a point, but nevertheless this can be counted as a masterful work, and certainly in its humanization of the Russian peasant class and their role as central figures in a great work, along with the nobility.
This is a three-part novel set among domestic scenes, courtroom, salon, prison camp (in Siberia, as we're noted) and the Russian landscape. This is a novel of many dimensions, textures, intricacies, densities by the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the seminal novels of Russian and world literature.
The Resurrection has been made into an opera; there has also been a screen version in 1918 starring Pauline Frederick. Before the film, Blanche Walsh played in the stage version.
This great novel demonstrates Tolstoy's interest in the sage/the wisdom, the moral, the ascetic and the necessity of transforming societies on every level, material, social, legal, intellectual, spiritual, etc. The human and spiritual dilemmas as depicted in The Resurrection are the human and spiritual dilemmas of every civilization, every society's need for spiritual revelation and resurrection.
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