Resurrection

De: Leo Tolstoy

Narrado por: Simon Vance

Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact, he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces. Tolstoy based Resurrection, the last of his novels, on a true story of a philanderer whose misuse of a beautiful young orphan girl leads to her ruin. Fate brings the two together many years later and the meeting awakens the man's moral conscience. Anger, intimacy, forgiveness, and grace result. While the situation of Tolstoy's plot is alien to most people, his nuanced treatment of mortal life is familiar to all.

Late in his life Tolstoy confessed that he earlier had seduced two young girls for his pleasure. Perhaps his own deeds and their horrible consequences motivated him to write this novel with a special passion. It is a particularly moving tale. Tolstoy's Resurrectionis marvelous in the fullest sense of the word—a story so improbable that it must be a miraculous achievement.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the great novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenin explore the depths and heights of the human condition with eloquence and an edge that combine to make them powerfully real throughout generations and across national identities. Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major novels.

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The Key to Life

Leo Tolstoy wonderfully shares the story of life and permits all to be resurrected. May all read.

Why don’t we discuss Tolstoy’s ideas more?

They are so relevant to today and perhaps could shed some light on our society’s cycle of poverty. And the narrator’s voice is so pleasant to listen to as an added bonus to this audiobook.

Outstanding performance! I could "see" the story

What did you love best about Resurrection?

The lesson on how to set personal ego aside and just do the right thing vs. the thing that other's projected expectation of the right thing.

Complicated yet simple plot.

What did you like best about this story?

The focus on the consequences for actions having a long-term effect.

The character development that Tolstoy pens reveals many human characteristics and exposes how perceptions of right and wrong, good and bad are woven into our pre-conceived notions of others.
I also enjoyed the various little sub-plots.

Which character – as performed by Simon Vance – was your favorite?

Katyusha Maslova - she shows vulnerability, nobility, work ethic, moral decay, and so many opposites in just one character.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Face the Extreme
Extreme the Face

Fabulous

There is not much to say about Tolstoy’s books except, fabulous. Russian literature and writers are like no others. Their characters jump off the page, their description always extremely vivid.
I was pleased I found one I had not read

Very good book. Highly recommended. Simon Vance is

Very good book. Highly recommended. Simon Vance is excellent as always! I enjoyed the book.