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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy, Religion, Christian Theology, Philosophy
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In
Confession
Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death?
In 1879 the fifty-year-old author of
War and Peace
and
Anna Karenina
came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificant novels would have assured Tolstoy's permanent place in the annals of world literature, yet his achievement was not enough to give his life meaning.
is an account of this spiritual crisis, marking a shift of Tolstoy's central focus from the aesthetic to the religious and philisophical.
Confession
Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death?
In 1879 the fifty-year-old author of
War and Peace
and
Anna Karenina
came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificant novels would have assured Tolstoy's permanent place in the annals of world literature, yet his achievement was not enough to give his life meaning.
is an account of this spiritual crisis, marking a shift of Tolstoy's central focus from the aesthetic to the religious and philisophical.