Clarabelle Koh Koh itibaren Eyakubpur, West Bengal, India itibaren Eyakubpur, West Bengal, India

"A Confession" is Tolstoy's engrossing spiritual autobiography. By midlife he had come to believe (having read Schopenhauer, among others) that life was utterly meaningless and the only logical response was suicide. He began to wonder how so many millions of people could continue to live - so he examined the lives of the Russian working class around him. He found in them a compelling religious faith, which, in time, he adopted (although he eventually left Russian Orthodoxy, partly because he couldn't believe some of its teachings and partly because of its sectarianism). Tolstoy had come to believe that God is that which makes life and living possible. "'Live in search of God and there will be no life without God!' And more powerfully than ever before everything within and around me came to light, and the light has not deserted me since."