Tolstoy's quest for God
By: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780765803764
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf, -- 1828-1910 -- Religion; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ; Faith
Description: The religious dimension of Tolstoy's life is usually associated with his later years following his renunciation of art. In this volume, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere demonstrates instead that Tolstoy was preoccupied with a quest for God throughout all of his adult life. Rancour-Laferriere locates the psychological underpinnings of Tolstoy's suffering in a bipolar illness that led him actively to seek suffering and self-humiliation in the Russian tradition of "holy foolishness".
Notes: Originally published: New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1944.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tolstoy records his religious crisis; title: Tolstoy attacks the Russian Orthodox Church; title: Tolstoy tells us what he believes; title: Pantheistic finale.