The living body

The "Live Body" of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy is a famous sharp-social drama, which reveals the hypocrisy of the state-church system and investigates the tragedy of an honest but weak man, who has become a stranger in the world of chancellor and formalism. The main hero, coat and noble Fedor Protasov, realizes that his marriage with his wife Lisa has gone into the fool, and he himself brings only suffering to the loved ones. Lisa loves the soft and right Victor Karenin, but the strict laws of the Russian Empire and the Orthodox Church make the formal divorce practically impossible without humiliating deception. Not wanting to lie at court and wanting to give freedom to loved ones, Protasov decides to imitate his own suicide, falling down to the bottom and turning himself into a "live body" for society. But when fraud is revealed, the state machine is powerfully interfering in the fate of the heroes, turning the noble breakthrough into a crime. Tolstoy with unbeatable dramatic strength shows the conflict between the living human sense and the dead letter of the law, raising questions of personality freedom, marriage and true mercy. About what the book in three words: Freedom, Fraud, Judgment. Who to read: Lovers of deep Russian drama and classical social prose, fans of complex moral and ethical conflicts and everyone interested in the study of the subject of human freedom in the work of Leo Tolstoy.