Vaskrsenje

by Leo Tolstoy

Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Zinedin Hasić · Rating 5 out of 5]

Podstaknuta prvobitno zamišnjena novela, otpočeta na istinitom događaju, evoluirala je zahvaljujući pišćevom perfekcionizmu godinama kasnije u njegov najidejniji i najhrabriji roman.

Struktura romana nije kompleksna kao njegova (Lavova) dva danas najpoznatija; nema više glavnih likova a ni sporednih koji su nešto esencijalno razvijeni. Ipak, jedan vaskrsli lik je i više nego dovoljan bio, da se iznesu na najzreliji način egzistencijalno-humanističke ideje. Odnos prema prirodi, religiji, pravdi, pravosuđu, socijalizmu, aniti-kapitalizmu, humanizmu - sve navedeno pa i više od ovoga, dovelo je do toga da se ovaj roman izopači od strane vladajućeg poretka sa preko 500 cenzura, da se marginalizije i na njega gleda kao tek još jedno umjetničko djelo u nizu, pritom navodno manje vrijedno u odnosu na najveća "klasik" djela.