God Sees the Truth, But Waits
Written by Leo Tolstoi
Narrated by Deaver Brown
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God Sees the Truth but Waits has the subject matter that Dostoyevsky could have used. The difference is Dostoyevsky would have written it with a fist waving of anger and frustration leaping from the page while Tolstoy writes it with an accepting non-violent attitude relating to those abused with grievances. The protagonist has wrongly been accused of murder, separated from his family for 26 years, and by circumstance meets the real murder in Siberia. The protagonist has come to have an important role in the Siberian community, trusted by Warden and prisoners alike. He spies the murder trying to escape, is threatened, but still does not speak out when asked by the Warden. This profoundly moves the murderer who seeks forgiveness from the protagonist, who says, “Only God can give forgiveness.” The protagonist becomes at peace with himself. The murderer confesses, the protagonist exonerated and ordered released from prison, but is dead when the notice comes. A classic Russian ending.
Leo Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5AMAZING STORY OF QUIET REDEMPTION IN A REAL WORLD CONTEXT. The redemption did not come in the form of freedom from imprisonment, but in the lightness of heart from forgiveness, and by forgiving the murderer, he entered into a new life with the Father in heaven, and he no doubt experienced the ultimate form of joy and enlightenment in the very presence of God. And his legacy was to bring conversion in the heart of the murderer who became contrite and changed his life.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice story very linear though, cumulative, ended with the death of an innocent man, who's life was wasted
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another short story winner from Tolstoy. Many think of Tolstoy as a master of the long novel, but I have really enjoyed his short stories and novelettes.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I know it's Tolstoy, but my feeling toward this story was "blah."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A sad little story of a man who spends a life in prison for a murder committed by another