A Confession (Penguin Great Ideas #50) -

Leo Tolstoy

Penguin Books

2021

102 páginas

3h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780141036694

A short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the Russian novelist, the book is a brief autobiographical story of the author's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis. It describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical question: "If God does not exist, since death is inevitable, what is the meaning of life?". Without the answer to this, for him, life had become "impossible".