A Confession

A Confession

A Confession

A Confession

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Overview

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.

Confession is an account of this spiritual crisis, marking a shift of Tolstoy's central focus from the aesthetic to the religious and philisophical.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486438511
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 01/05/2005
Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 359,951
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author


Novelist, essayist, dramatist, and philosopher, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is most famous for his sprawling portraits of 19th-century Russian life, as recounted in Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 20, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47
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