Confession

by Leo Tolstoy, David Patterson (Translator)

Tolstoy confessionb "My life has come to a halt." - A true confession of the world gates that felt suicidal. bTolstoys life was stopped in his 40s. He did not even know what he wanted. Tolstoy was afraid to live and tried to escape from his life. Still, I expected something from my life. So he constantly explored the purpose of life that had plagued him since his youth. I tried to find the answers by reading books in various fields such as science, history, philosophy, and literature. But he did not get much help in his studies. Eventually Tolstoy suffers a mental crisis. This crisis peaked at the age of 51 and even thought about suicide. At that point, the book he wrote was "Confessions."How and why should humans live? Tolstoy looked for half an answer to this question. And finally I found the answer just before jumping off the cliff of life. "Confessions" contain a long journey from finding the answer to the question you have been searching for and finding it. In the first half, his life, meetings with people, and various thoughts are scattered. But gradually he puts his thoughts together and calmly presents his answers. Based on the answer, advise others how to live their lives. Through this book, readers will be aware of the unclear reality of life. Tolstoy s confession of sincerity and weight will enable him to take the first step in such a new life.

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Cherish Poole · Rating 1 out of 5]

Most banal book I’ve read this year. If this is how his books go I don’t get the hype about Tolstoy I’ll have to say. 💀