Confession. About life. What is art? Tolstoy L.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, perhaps the most famous Russian writer in the world, went down in the history of literature not only as the creator of immortal novels, stories, stories, but also as a philosopher, the creator of his own teaching - Tolstoy. The real publication included two of the most important religious and philosophical labor of L. N. Tolstoy-“confession” and “about life”. Having become the result of the writer's many years of thought about the fundamental issues of human existence - about the meaning of life, about death and immortality, about faith, about what God is - at one time these works were prohibited for publication by censorship. Tolstoy's spiritual searches extended to the area of ​​aesthetics. A violent public reaction was caused by the appearance in the press of the treatise “What is art?”, In which Tolstoy set the task to determine the criteria of genuine art, freed from the dominant cultural tradition and all kinds of stereotypes. In addition to the treatise, the book also prints other works by Tolstoy about creativity problems.