Leo Tolstoy a confession

Today I bought Leo Tolstoy "A Confession".

Back Cover blurb:

This Buddhist-influenced treatise on living Christianity through each moment was Tolstoy's attempt to explain his own rationalist religious feelings. Although "A Confession" led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe.


Amazon review:

A Confession is Leo Tolstoy's memoir of midlife spiritual crisis. In 1879, having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the 51 year-old Tolstoy began to believe that his life was meaningless.

A Confession is his account of the limited satisfactions he derived from his aesthetic and intellectual triumphs, and of his first yearnings for real faith.

This book marks the turning point in his career as a writer: after 1880 he would write almost exclusively about religious life, especially devotion among the peasantry (in works such as The Death of Ivan Ilych and Resurrection).
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