Tolstoy’s “Resurrection” and the Lucky Man’s Dilemma

This 1931 edition of Resurrection doesn’t really capture the novel’s dark, unsexy vibe. HOBOKEN, JUNE 20, 2026. A novel written in late 19th-century Russia has me mulling over my moral obligations in 21st-century America. The novel is Tolstoy’s Resurrection . I love Tolstoy’s masterpieces Anna Karenina and War & Peace (see my review of the latter here ). Is any narrator more omniscient than…