Title: a great defense of disbelief, as well as a search for truth
Product review: Dogmatic religion has never recieved such a blow. Here is a man whose simplicity and sincerity permeate every page. At about the age of fifty, unable to ignore the deeper questions of life (Why, and What for?), Tolstoy began a search for meaning rivalling any undertaken by a man before or since. From Socrates to Schopenhauer to Solomon to Buddha, and, finally, to Christ, he studies the greatest minds of antiquity and today, rejecting everything that refuses to face-up to the ultimate problem of human life. The result is a profound affirmation that shatters his existing world-view and replaces it with a life entirely dedicated to God. Brilliant!Also recommended: Resurrection (the Vera Traill translation) and the Death of Ivan Illych and other stories, also by Tolstoy, Selected Essays by Tolstoy (esp. The First Step and What is Religion?), and The Brothers Karamazov (Andrew MacAndrew translation) by Fyodor Dostoievsky.
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