Title: Tolstoy's Quest for God
First published: 2007
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".
Subjects: Faith, Religion, Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ, Tolstoy, leo, graf, 1828-1910, Religion in literature, Foi, LITERARY CRITICISM, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ
People: Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910)
LC classification: PG3415.R4 R36 2007