An edition of Tolstoy's Quest for God (2007)
Tolstoy's Quest for God
By Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
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Publish Date
April 30, 2007
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
206
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".