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A Confession

Исповедь

byLeo Tolstoy

Autobiographical account of Tolstoy's spiritual crisis around 1877–1879. It tells how, at the height of fame and family happiness, the question of the meaning of a life that ends in death brought him to the edge of suicide; how he found no answer in science or philosophy, nor in Solomon, Socrates, Schopenhauer or the Buddha; and how he found it in the faith of the peasants and in a God understood as that without which one cannot live. Conceived as the introduction to his religious work, it was banned by the censor and published in Geneva in 1884.

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