Resurrection

Author: (Russia) Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoy/L.N.) / Cheng Lizhou
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The Resurrection recounts a story where the nobleman fell in love with his aunt's maid Katya in his innocent youth. Two years later, corrupted by noble vices, he seduced and abandoned her. The naive and beautiful girl, after being hurt, found herself in despair, enduring humiliation and torment, her noble soul twisted until she fell into prostitution. Eight years later, during a court trial, fate brought the two, who had forgotten each other, together by chance. Maslova was wrongly accused of murder and sentenced to hard labor in Siberia. Nekhlyudov, consumed by guilt, remorse, and contradiction, actively helped her. He tirelessly worked to clear her name, navigating between the courts, prisons, churches, government agencies, and even the court, exposing the corruption and evil of the upper society. In this process, he constantly witnessed the corruption and vices of the upper class, deeply feeling the absurdity, cruelty, hypocrisy, and inhumanity of the current social system. It turned out that the so-called upper society he had lived in for the past ten years was exactly such a society! Nekhlyudov felt shocked, disgusted, bewildered, and tormented. Through continuous self-reflection, the human side of his spirit gradually overcame the animalistic side, ultimately reviving his spiritual humanity and gaining a new life in the philosophy of love. In prison, through interactions with convicts and political prisoners, and with Nekhlyudov's help, Maslova's noble humanity was also restored, and she began a new life.