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Those wonderful vocals and an excellent guitar sound that is deep in rock heritage. I cannot overemphasize the importance The Smiths had in my teenage development. Somehow I missed the Smiths, being long past my teenage years in the 80s! My son asked me what that song was that they featured in "The Wedding Singer" movie during a particular scene since he really liked that particular track. It took some research but we found it. We "had" to rewatch the movie; it was fun. I was mother to a teenager in the 80s. As a vegetarian convert he tattooed "Meat is Murder" on his shin I flipped, but it was too late.
Still has it of course and still vegetarian. I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, though. I don't think I have any of The Smiths in my own collection but going 'way back in your thread I have tons of Joe Satriani, one of my favourite rockers. I'm glad to hear your opinion as I have it on my tbr shelf. Johnny Marr was on a BBC guitar documentary saying that he set himself a challenge of not using traditional rock styles using power chords etc and so ended up with the jangly style that defines the band.
Of course, he could just have listened to The Byrds and got there faster. It has always fascinated me that the two most influential rock bands of the s - The Smiths and R. Morrissey really is an enigma.
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He has a devoted following, his autobiography was issued by Penguin Classics and obviously has some talent as a writer but has written lyrics that can be read as racist and was described by a judge as "devious, truculent and unreliable". Much of his autobiography is spent on the trial where the drummer Mike Joyce sued Morrissey and Marr for royalties - I think he comes to the conclusion that the judgement was wrong, in fact, everybody was wrong except him. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy takes his readers on a journey through a Russia that is sinking under the weight of a conservative administration led by Tsar Alexander III in the last decade of the 19th century.
We view it through the eyes of Prince Nekhlyudov, but many believe it is Tolstoy himself. It is virtually a police state where the vast majority are peasants barely released from serfdom controlled by a system that can lock up, deport or murder anybody that agitates against it. The landowning elite have authority that seems self perpetuating and live a life that can completely disregard those that are under their power. Prince Nekhlyudov is one of those landowners who having served in the army has become corrupted because as Tolstoy says Military service always corrupts a man, placing him in conditions of complete idleness.
But Nekhlyudov has a conscience and it is beginning to stir, he is concerned about his affair with a woman married to one of his friends in society and is thinking of extricating himself so that he can marry the young Princess Korchagina. He gets a summons to do jury service and to his horror recognises one of the accused as a servant of his family, who he had seduced when on leave from the army. Katusha Maslova is on trial for the suspected poisoning of a client and we learn that since her dismissal from service with Nekhlyudov's family she has become a prostitute.
Nekhlyudov begins to see that Katusha's downfall is his responsibility and when her conviction is a result of a mal administration that he could have stopped he feels doubly responsible and vows to put things right. Nekhlyudov's position in society and his family's influence gains him entrance to the upper echelons of the government and judiciary that serves the Tsarist regime. When he finally gains access to the prison he finds that Katusha is no longer the innocent girl he seduced and she sees him initially as a nuisance then a meal ticket as he struggles to gain her trust.
Part one of the novel takes us through the workings of the judiciary system and Tolstoy's acute observations pins the corruption and mal practice squarely on the shoulders of those who serve within it.
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We witness the lifestyle of the rich as Nekhlyudov becomes increasingly uncomfortable in their presence, because his eyes are opened by their complacency and misuse of power. When he gains entry to the prisons themselves we witness the appalling conditions under which the prisoners are held, but human spirit manages to survive. We see the same thing when Nekhlyudov visits his estates and attempts to free the peasants by giving them rights to the land.
They are immured in the system and they resent any change, rather like some of the prisoners. In this first half of the book; Tolstoy's writing and observations are full of interest and he bring the scenes he depicts to life, while at the same time doing a hatchet job on the church, on evangelism, on the legal system, corruption in high places and the landowning elite.
However I find the character and actions of Nekhlyudov more problematic, I am not entirely convinced by his conversion to the lot of the poor and underprivileged and he comes across more of a sponge or even a cypher, soaking up everything around him, I feel his isolation and increasing discomfort, but am surprised at his resolution which seems a little out of character.
This changes in the second and third parts of the novel which portrays the prisoners enforced journey to Siberia. The novel seems to breathe once the prisoners are led out of their fetid prison with Nekhyludov following as best he can; it is a sort of exodus and as horrific as the journey is and the conditions of the halting stations are, on the three thousand mile journey, there is less pessimism and more time for Nekhyludov to come to terms with his guilt and for Tolstoy to convince his readers.
The relationship with Katusha deepens and broadens and the concentration on the plight of the political and criminal prisoners gives the novel a storyline and coherence that contrasts with the machinations of the first part which takes place in the claustrophobic city. This is an epic novel and it needs the vastness of the Russia landscape in which to work it's magic. It is also the story of one man's and probably one woman's redemption from a life led for purely selfish reasons. Along the way it eschews the benefits of socialism. Hope of salvation is for individuals to come to understand in their own terms the words of Christ at the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel according to St Mathew.
The journey for Nekhyludov ends with him finding peace and liberation: And it happened to Nekhlyudov as it often happens to people living a spiritual life. The thought that at first had appeared so strange so paradoxical, laughable even, ever more frequently finding confirmation in life, suddenly appeared to him as the simplest incontrovertible truth The answer that he had been unable to find was the same that Christ gave to Peter: to forgive everyone always, forgive an endless number of times, because there was no man living who was guiltless and therefore able to punish or reform.
Some readers of Resurrection have found it too preachy, but I think this is missing the point. Tolstoy is concerned with setting out the wrongs of his world and the role that people play in it, but his message is that it is up to the individual to find their own redemption, however they can. Resurrection is a word that immediately evokes a religious connotation and it is no accident that Tolstoy should choose it as a title for his novel, however it is only in the final few pages that this is made explicit.
Resurrection is not a quick read but then it is nowhere near the length of War and Peace. The writing is superb throughout and if the first part was a little slow to get going by the time the prisoners started their trek to Siberia and Tolstoy embarked on one of his grand set pieces then I was hooked.
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This is a classic and I am sure it would benefit from a re-read, but as I found it uneven this time round, a four star read. You've just convinced me to reread Resurrection. I had read it in my teens and lately for some reason was thinking it was time to read it again. Redemption and resurrection will surely have different meanings than they did back then.
Lovely balanced review. By the way, who was the translator of your edition? Going back to Dissolution , it really did give a good view of that part of the country away from the world of London. What a realistic depiction of winter, too! Although I've really enjoyed most of the Tolstoy I've read and am a huge fan of War and Peace and Anna Karenina , I was not captivated by the more religious stories in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories and thus have shied away from Resurrection because of the title.
Your review makes me think I should rethink that. I have been saving Tolstoy for retirement, but since I've been retired for more than ten years and still haven't read him, maybe it's time to get on the ball.
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Resurrection sounds fascinating, and thanks for letting us know that it is not as long as War and Peace! But War and Peace is un-putdownable, or at least it was for me when I reread it in 40s I skipped the war parts when I read it in my teens, and in my 40s they were some of the best parts.
But not just yet! Lunar Language. Great review of Resurrection.
The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin The Man in the Moone published in is a delightful novella of 41 pages that is both an early perhaps the earliest science fiction story and a Utopian fantasy. How it came to be written and why it was published anonymously some five years after the authors death adds to it's mystique. Written by Bishop Francis Godwin and eventually printed under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales it was an instant and popular success easily eclipsing the bishops other best seller Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the First planting of the Christian Religion in this island It's original title was "The man in the Moone or A discourse of a voyage thither by Domingo Gonsales Thy Speedy Messenger and it is written in the first person as a picaresque tale by Gonsales a Spaniard who has fled from his native land after killing an opponent in a duel.
Marooned on St Helena he leads a sort of Robinson Crusoe existence before discovering that with the aid of the "gansa" a sort of wild swan he can convey messages and by fixing up some sort of engine he uses a flock of them to jump great distances. He finds a ship to return to Spain but is attacked by pirates; using his "gansa" as a means of escape they fly away with him on their usual migration path to the moon. Gonsales lands on the moon to find that it has lush vegetation and is inhabited by people who are at least twice as tall as him.
He soon discovers that he has found a virtual paradise and is accepted by the inhabitants as soon as they discover he is a Christian and they look after him and teach him their language which has to be sung. Most of the rest of the book describes the government and society of the Moon people which is Utopian, before Gonsales gets permission to attempt to return to Earth, where he pitches up in China.
The Moon is a world ruled by a stable government of hereditary Monarchs and Princes. There is no crime and all injuries can be quickly healed.
The women are all beautiful and food grows so plentifully that very little work needs to be done to supply everybody's needs. Most of the people are tall, but those who are shorter end up doing the more menial tasks.