Recognition | Tolstoy

In 1879, Tolstoy - the great Russian writer, one of the most famous writers in the world, and author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina - at the age of fifty-one - was at the height of his glory, when he suddenly wondered: what after all I have reached? What is the point of my life? And what is its purpose? At that time, he felt he had achieved nothing, and that his life was meaningless, so he wrote down the most significant events he experienced, to contemplate them, and to seek answers through science, philosophy, and religion, and to arrive at a conception that would take him out of the deep intellectual and spiritual crisis that made him lose all desire to live. The Russian church prevented the publication of this confession for years, until it was published abroad, and translated into most of the world's languages. It was translated into Arabic by Archbishop Antonios Bashir, the Lebanese theologian, writer, and eloquent preacher. A tense, deep, and revealing text about faith and meaning, inspiring generations of readers around the world.