The Resurrection of Lazarus

15 hrs. 52 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Sharov

Narrator Oborotov Yury

Description

“The Resurrection of Lazarus” by Vladimir Sharov is an intensely packed novel, devoid of compositional emptiness. Through an engrossing plot, an original historiosophical treatise shows itself between the lines—surprising for the density and quality of thought. The author takes on the impossible: to justify the Red Terror through God and Christianity. Or, conversely: to justify God through the Red Terror. The text is built on a collision of paradoxes: Tolstoyans, fools-for-Christ, Fedorovites, Chekists, sectarians, anthroposophists—every character in the novel builds their own utopia, the condition for constructing which is the resurrection of the dead—of all the human race, down to the progenitor Adam… Specifically for this edition, the author has revised and expanded the novel’s text. To date, Vladimir Sharov is the champion of literary provocations, and his books are among the favorite reads of Russian intellectuals.