Oppstandelse - Bind 1

Oppstandelse #1

by Leo Tolstoy, Astrid Bjønness (Translator)

Den prostituerte Jekaterina Maslova står anklaget for mord. I juryen som skal dømme henne sitter Dmitrij Nekhljudov, hennes første forfører. De har ikke sett hverandre på ti år, og for ham blir møtet et sjokk. Han bestemmer seg for å forsøke å sone sin brøde ved å følge den uskyldig dømte kvinnen til Sibir og der gifte seg med henne, men veien skal bli lenger og mer besværlig enn han tror. Denne boken er en av de mest nådeløse kritikker av samfunn, religion og rettsvesen som noensinne er skrevet.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1991

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.

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[Astrid Ottmann-Knoph · Rating 4 out of 5]

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