忏悔录

by Leo Tolstoy

《忏悔录》创作于1879年至1882年间，托尔斯泰将其视为自己完整的精神自传，是自己毕生思想的总结。在《忏悔录》的创作时期“托尔斯泰主义”尚未真正形成，但是却为“托尔斯泰主义”奠定了基础，并成为“托尔斯泰主义”的纲领性作品，甚至可以说《忏悔录》是解读托尔斯泰晚年所有作品，乃至理解这位伟大作家一生的钥匙。尽管托尔斯泰的思想未必适用于每一个人，但是正如俄国文史学家米尔斯基所言，《忏悔录》“是人类灵魂在面对生与死的永恒秘密时所做出的最伟大、最恒久表达之一”。

230 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Leisurecan · Rating 2 out of 5]

应该更名为“我是如何开始信上帝的”。因为不信教所以暂时没有感触，作为作家能够这样自我暴露还是勇气可嘉。