کتاب Resurrection ( رمان رستاخیز)

Prince Nekhludoff recognizes the prostitute Ljubaša, accused in a murder trial, as the peasant Katjuša Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years earlier, causing her ruin. Oppressed by guilt, he works to save the woman and, with her, his own soul.

Tolstoy’s last great novel takes its cue from a real “judicial affair”, which is above all a reflection on the inevitability of evil, on the universal injustice of suffering, to which man can only oppose the prospect of individual redemption, such as that which Katjuša and Nekhludoff will find, each in their own way.

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