Recognition, authorship: Leo Tolstoy

In 1879, Tolstoy – the great Russian writer, one of the most famous authors in the world, and the 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 purpose of my life? And what is its goal? 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 reflect on them, and to seek answers through science, philosophy, and religion, and to reach a conception that would take him out of the deep intellectual and spiritual crisis that caused him to lose all desire for life. The Russian church prevented the publication of this confession for years, until it was published abroad, and translated into most of the languages of the world. It was translated into Arabic by the Lebanese theologian, scholar, and eloquent preacher Archbishop Antonios Bashir. A restless, profound, and revealing text about faith and meaning, inspiring generations of readers around the world. Number of pages: 168