Resurrection

Resurrection is the crowning achievement of Tolstoy's art and thought in his late years, and his last novel. Modeled on a real case, it builds a social panorama through the tortuous story of redemption between the nobleman Nekhlyudov and the serf girl Katyusha Maslova. It is not only a profound human story of repentance and redemption but also a scalpel dissecting the social fabric of late nineteenth-century Russia—the corruption of the courts, the darkness of the prisons, the hypocrisy of the bureaucracy, and the destitution of the peasants are all exposed under Tolstoy's calm, incisive pen. Compared with the grand epic sweep of his earlier War and Peace and the domestic psychological depth of Anna Karenina, Resurrection strikes with a sharper intellectual edge and a more direct, urgent moral inquiry, embodying the author's thorough transformation in his late years from artistic master to spiritual seeker. Reading this novel, we feel not only the power of narrative but also an almost severe spirit of self-examination. Nekhlyudov's path of "resurrection" is in essence the outward expression of Tolstoy's own spiritual exploration, and the ultimate question it poses is: how can a guilty person truly be reborn morally? For readers of any era, this is a soul-searching interrogation. This SDX Joint Publishing edition offers a meticulous translation, providing a reliable text for a deeper understanding of this classic.