Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy author Louise Maude translator Andrew Kahn editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Everyman
Publishing:3rd Jul '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A nobleman faces the consequences of his youthful wrongdoing when the girl he seduced and abandoned some years earlier is put on trial in a murder case. Initially conceived as a love story, Tolstoy’s last novel, published in 1899, is a dark masterpiece in which the whole of Imperial Russian society is tried and found wanting. Resurrection moves from the salons and country estates of the aristocracy to courtrooms and government offices, brothels and prisons; from Moscow and St Petersburg by road, rail and route march to the penal settlements of Siberia. Its pages are peopled with convicts and gaolers, revolutionaries and religious sectaries, soldiers, labourers and lawyers, peasants, priests and prostitutes. While for Prince Nekhlyudov and Katusha Maslova salvation through love proves problematic, the journey into exile becomes one of self-discovery and spiritual transformation.
Sweetness and light among shame and confusion. The greatest of all novels is Leo Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection. Its effect upon a reader is immense and immediate. * Independent *
My all-time favourite is Resurrection. Its themes of social injustice and personal redemption resonated in the Seventies, when I first read it. This, I thought, is what all books should be like: serious, committed and passionate -- Howard Jacobson * Guardian *
In Resurrection … the return to the land, as the physical correlative to the rebirth of the soul, is beautifully rendered…The sun glimmers on the river, the colt nuzzles, and the pastoral scene enforces on Nekhlyudov the full realization that the morality of urban life is founded on injustice… The account of the eastward transportation of the prisoners is handled with a breadth of design and aliveness which transcend any programmatic purpose. When Tolstoy opened his eyes on actual scenes and events … his hand moved with matchless artistry. -- George Steiner
The greatest of all novels is Leo Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection. Its effect upon a reader is immense and immediate. Even after eight readings of various translations, I continue to feel its spell and admire its complexity… This brilliant, troubling novel at first out-sold Tolstoy's earlier novels, even War and Peace. It was criticized for its outspoken contents. It remains a grand panorama of discontent -- Brian Aldiss * Independent *
ISBN: 9781841594330
Dimensions: 216mm x 133mm x 40mm
Weight: 750g
536 pages