This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War
and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the
finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based
on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is
astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman
whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is
found guilty on a technicality, and he determines to overturn the
verdict. This pitches him into a hellish labyrinth of Russian
courts, prisons and bureaucracy, in which the author loses no
opportunity for satire and bitter criticism of a state system (not
confined to that country) of cruelty and injustice. This is Dickens
for grown-ups, involving a hundred characters, Crime and Punishment
brought forward half a century. With unforgettable set-pieces of
sexual passion, conflict and social injustice, Resurrection
proceeds from brothel to court-room, stinking cells to offices of
state, luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia. The ultimate
crisis of moral responsibility embroils not only the famous author
and his hero, but also you and me. Can we help resolve the eternal
issues of law and imprisonment?
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