A review by alanffm
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

4.0

A particularly lucid examination of death and the existential crisis a life lived without faith can incur. Tolstoy's language is so clear that it puts other existentialists, like Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Camus, to shame - as what takes them several pages to explore only takes Tolstoy a couple lines to explain. This is not to say, however, that A Confession is without its flaws. Loose logic and a blind love for the poor are problematic and Tolstoy's inability to see how those who do not suffer from poverty can ever find meaning in life is troubling.
Nevertheless, an extremely interesting read.