Leo Tolstoy is unquestionably a great writer. When I got his Resurrection in my hand looking at his picture on the
cover and
looking at the title of the book I thought it must be painstaking to go through it like anything sounding extraordinary and of higher consciousness and by somebody who looks very somber. But such thoughts could not lust even as long as I took to finish the first paragraph. This book will not trouble you as anything of the largeness of WAR AND PEACE may do .This is a
convincing account of Russia ,’the land of suffering’ in Tolstoy’s time. This is about ideology, crude reality of torture on and manipulation of the poor by the landed gentry, moral decadence and then a struggle against all odds to regain the spiritual holiness that was lost. PLOT CONSTRUCTION AND CHARACTERISATION are quite convincing and insightful; specially, the characters of Nekhleudov and Maslova with all their ups and downs and convincingly human reactions towards all the uncommon events (very common in the then Russia and probably in interiors of Bihar and U.P of today’s India (as we find from films and newspapers)) in their lives are very engaging. The description of the journey of the prisoners from the jail to Siberia with its hellish imagery is something you will not be able to forget. Last but not the list is the lesson that you get: against all odds we should at any cost try to be men of real worth, and that it’s never too late to do that. I was going through a very bad patch when I came to find this and it helped me a lot. One more thing- my word on it- you will not find this excessively intellectual so as to trouble you with irritating pedantry is there but it is sincere and useful. So many years have gone by- RESURRECTION is still 100% relevant. I PROMISE -YOU WILL FIND THIS BOOK MEMORABLE.
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