Confession (pre-reform Russian: Исповѣдь; post-reform Russian: Исповедь, romanized: Íspovedʹ), or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in …

2021年8月2日 · A Confession is his attempt to put these thoughts in words as he teetered on the brink of suicide. It forms the first in a four-volume series that included A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe (also known as My Religion or My Faith).

Then as now, the public profession and confession of orthodoxy was chiefly met with among people who were dull and cruel and who considered themselves very important. Ability, honesty, reliab-ility, good-nature and moral conduct, were often met with among unbelievers.

A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in process of looking for answers to profound questions that trouble all who take them on: "What will come of my life?"

2023年4月12日 · A Confession, or My Confession, is a work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was of late-middle age.

As such, the Confession marks a turning point in Tolstoy's concern as an author, and after 1880 his attention was concen­ trated quite explicitly and almost exclusively on the religious life

Tolstoy, Leo. A Confession. Translated by L. and A. Maude. San Bernadino, California: WLC Books, 2009. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910 A.D.), known best for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, experienced a psychological crisis later in life that led to his adoption of a pacifist and quasi-Christian form of anarchism.

A Confession is his attempt to put these thoughts in words as he teetered on the brink of suicide. It forms the first in a four-volume series that included A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology , The Gospel in Brief , and What I Believe (also known as My Religion or My Faith ).

2024年2月21日 · For other English-language translations of this work, see A Confession (Tolstoy). Written in 1879–80, and published two years later, this work is written by a 51-year-old Tolstoy who looks back, considering his life thus far a failure (despite his tremendous success and status as a writer, having already published War and Peace and Anna Karenina).

Confession. by Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy . First distributed in Russia in 1882. Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude Notes by Aylmer Maude . Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. Chapter VI. Chapter VII. Chapter VIII. Chapter IX. Chapter X. Chapter XI. Chapter XII. Chapter XIII. Chapter XIV. Chapter XV. Chapter XVI