Resurrection

R$ 73,90

Sinopse

‘In the very depths of his heart, he knew that he had behaved so meanly, so contemptibly, so cruelly’Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her release or give up his own way of life and follow her. Conceived on an epic scale, Resurrection portrays a vast panorama of Russian life, taking us from the underworld of prison cells and warders to the palaces of countesses. It is also an angry denunciation of government, the upper classes, the judicial system and the Church, and a highly personal statement of Tolstoy’s belief in human redemption. Rosemary Edmonds’s fine translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing how Resurrection relates to Tolstoy’s own spiritual development and how the scope and depth of the book are even more ambitious than his other works.

Participantes

Autor: Liev Tolstoi

Tradutor: Rosemary Edmonds

Autor

LIEV TOLSTOI

O escritor russo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi (1828-1910) — também conhecido como Leon, Leão ou Liev Tolstoi — destacou-se no panteão dos grandes mestres russos da literatura do século XIX, ao lado de nomes como Dostoiévski, Turguêniev e Tchekhov. Não bastasse a honra de ser um dos proeminentes de um círculo tão grandioso de escritores, Tolstói foi um ativista ferrenho do pacifismo, propagandeando durante toda a sua velhice os benefícios de uma vida simples e próxima da natureza. Atormentado por questões familiares, fugiu de casa aos 82 anos, falecendo de pneumonia, sozinho, em uma estação de trem. Suas obras de maior destaque são Guerra e paz e Anna Kariênina.