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My Confession

Leo Tolstoy

My Confession

My Confession

Leo Tolstoy

At fifty, Leo Tolstoy had everything: wealth, fame, a loving family, the admiration of a nation. He also had nothing, because none of it answered the question that began to consume him: what is the meaning of life? My Confession is Tolstoy's harrowing account of his descent into existential despair, his systematic rejection of every philosophy and wisdom tradition he could find, and his eventual, tentative return to faith not as a mystic, but as a reasoning man who had run out of other options. Written with the literary power of the author of War and Peace but the raw vulnerability of a man who could no longer pretend, this brief work captures a crisis that has echoed through every generation since. It is the story of modern humanity's search for meaning, told by one of its greatest minds at the breaking point.

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