{"product_id":"2026100009866-secondhand-judas-golovlyov","title":"Judas Golovlyov","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Text: English. Slightly crushed spine - otherwise internally sound, clean text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA suffocating portrait of greed, hypocrisy, and moral decay, Judas Golovlyov stands as one of Russian literature's most devastating indictments of the gentry class. The novel chronicles the collapse of the Golovlyov family estate across three generations, centering on Porfiry Golovlyov — nicknamed Judas — a sanctimonious, hollow man whose pious mutterings and serpentine manipulation drain the life from everyone around him, leaving a trail of ruin masquerading as righteousness.\n\nMikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, the great Russian satirist and contemporary of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, constructs his narrative with surgical precision, wielding dark irony and unflinching psychological realism to dissect the rot at the heart of the provincial landowning class in 19th-century Russia. The prose is simultaneously bleak and grimly compelling, illustrating how spiritual emptiness, cloaked in religious performativity, becomes a weapon of destruction. A work of profound social criticism that resonates far beyond its historical context, Judas Golovlyov leaves the reader questioning whether true evil wears the face of a monster — or that of a quietly muttering hypocrite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203284869339,"sku":"2026100009866-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f0561246-8b4a-4c85-bbf4-c79c19b0d23e.png?v=1788147544","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009866-secondhand-judas-golovlyov","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}