{"product_id":"134111","title":"Tolstoy's Confessions ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYC5RA5t5612lem4pYWFfsqMh4pzv.png?v=1765024101\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Tolstoy's Confessions \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/62776045\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“My life has come to a standstill.”\u003cbr\u003e A World-Class Literary Master's Honest Confession About Suicidal Impulses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy's life came to a standstill in his forties.\u003cbr\u003e He didn't even know what he wanted.\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy was afraid of living and tried to escape from it.\u003cbr\u003e And yet, I still expected something from life.\u003cbr\u003e So he constantly explored the purpose of life that had plagued him since his youth.\u003cbr\u003e I tried to find the answer by reading books on various fields such as science, history, philosophy, and literature.\u003cbr\u003e However, he did not get much help in academics.\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, Tolstoy suffers a mental crisis.\u003cbr\u003e This crisis reached its peak at age 51, and he even considered suicide.\u003cbr\u003e The book written at that time was 『Confessions』.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHow should humans live, and for what purpose? Tolstoy spent half his life searching for an answer to this question.\u003cbr\u003e And finally, just before I jumped off the cliff of life, I found the answer.\u003cbr\u003e 『Confessions』 contains the answers to the questions I have been searching for and the long journey to find them.\u003cbr\u003e The first half is a jumble of thoughts about one's own life and people, and a lot of other things.\u003cbr\u003e But he gradually gathers his thoughts and calmly presents the answer he found.\u003cbr\u003e Based on that answer, I advise others on how to live their lives.\u003cbr\u003e Through this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of the ambiguous reality of life.\u003cbr\u003e Through Tolstoy's serious and weighty confession, you will be able to take the first step into a new life like him.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1: Memories of Childhood\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 My Youth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Superstitious Belief in Progress and the Death of My Brother\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: My Life Stopped\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Questions about Academics and My Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Wise Men's Outlook on Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Four Approaches to Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: What I Learned from the Public\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 Knowledge Not Based on Reason\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Discoveries and Questions About a New Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: How Should Humans Live?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: The Process of Finding God\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: The Purpose of Human Life: The Essence of Faith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14 Questions about Religious Ritual\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15 True Faith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: Seeking Truth\u003cbr\u003e Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Commentary \/ Aylmer Mode\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy's life\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy Chronology\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate3701\/MidCate007\/370068316.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Another event that made me realize that superstitious beliefs about progress are not enough to guide my life was the death of my brother. \u003cbr\u003eMy older brother, a wise, kind, and serious man, fell ill at a young age and, after a difficult year-long struggle with the illness, died in agony without even knowing why he had lived or why he had to die.\u003cbr\u003e As my brother slowly and painfully died, no theory could answer those questions for him or for me.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I already knew that by following the path of knowledge based on reason, I could discover nothing but the negation of life.\u003cbr\u003e But what I found in my faith was only those things that could be accepted only by denying reason, and this was to me even more impossible than denying life.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A contradiction arose, and there were two ways out of this contradiction. \u003cbr\u003eOne was to admit that what I had previously called rationality was not as rational as I had thought, and the other was to admit that what had previously seemed irrational to me was not as irrational as I had thought.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this way, I was forced to acknowledge that, in addition to the rational knowledge I had hitherto considered the only knowledge, there existed another kind of knowledge possessed by all mankind, a knowledge not based on reason: the knowledge of faith, which gave all mankind the meaning of life and enabled them to live. \u003cbr\u003eFaith remained as irrational to me as ever, but I could not help but admit that only faith can provide humanity with answers to life's questions and enable it to live.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So, what should humans do? Like animals, humans must work for their own survival. However, unlike animals, humans cannot survive if they work solely for themselves, as they must work for everyone, not just themselves.\u003cbr\u003e And when a human being works for everyone, I feel very clearly that such a human being is happy and his life has meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.89~90\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \",\"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow should humans live, and for what purpose?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom a very young age, Tolstoy tried to comprehensively understand the meaning of life in one way or another.\u003cbr\u003e It was in his forties that he felt compelled to dedicate his life and intellect to that work.\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy looked into the lives of the common people as well as the aristocracy like himself to find the key to understanding the riddle of life.\u003cbr\u003e And I spent over ten years reading and studying major religious, scientific, and philosophical works.\u003cbr\u003e But I found nothing that I could accept with my own reason.\u003cbr\u003e He expressed himself in a fable:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “My appearance was the same, hanging on to the branches of life, knowing full well that soon the dragon of death would be waiting to tear me to pieces. \u003cbr\u003eAnd I couldn't understand why I had ended up in such a painful situation.\u003cbr\u003e I used to try to lick the honey that eased my pain, but now it no longer gave me pleasure, and the white and black mice of day and night were gnawing at the branch on which I was hanging.\u003cbr\u003e Since I saw the dragon clearly, honey was no longer sweet to me.\u003cbr\u003e All I could see were dragons and rats that I couldn't avoid, and I couldn't take my eyes off them.\u003cbr\u003e And this was not a fable made up by people, but a stark reality that everyone knew but could not find the answer to.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIs there a way to solve life's questions?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He believed there were four ways to escape from the questions of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first way was “ignorance.” \u003cbr\u003eIgnorance here means not recognizing or realizing that life is evil and absurd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The second way was “hedonism.”\u003cbr\u003e Hedonism is about enjoying the pleasures we have at hand to the fullest extent possible, shunning the dragons and rats, even though we know full well that life is hopeless, and licking the honey that is abundantly on the leaves before our eyes as deliciously as possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The third way is to try to solve it with “force.”\u003cbr\u003e It means realizing that life is evil and meaningless and trying to artificially eliminate life.\u003cbr\u003e This is the approach taken by some people who have a strong desire and determination to get their way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fourth way comes from “weakness.” \u003cbr\u003eThe way of weakness means clinging to life despite knowing that life is evil and meaningless and that nothing can come of it.\u003cbr\u003e People in this category know that death is better than life.\u003cbr\u003e But he lacks the determination and tenacity needed to quickly end this deceptive life through suicide.\u003cbr\u003e So, they wait, stalling for time, without giving up the glimmer of hope that there might still be something in our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinally find answers to life's questions!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So how should humans live? Did Tolstoy find the answer to this question? He spent half his life searching for the answer.\u003cbr\u003e And finally, just before I jumped off the cliff of life, I found the answer.\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy says:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Humans, like animals, must work for their own survival, but they differ from animals in that they cannot survive if they work only for themselves, because they must work for everyone, not just for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e And when a human being works for the benefit of all, I feel very clearly that such a human being is happy and his life has meaning.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tolstoy wrote his Confessions entirely about the answers to the questions he had been searching for and the long journey he took to find them.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \"]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 1, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160 pages | 304g | 150*225*20mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9791187142515\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1187142514 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43891459162154,"sku":"134111","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/f0817ec64edfc668d2ec85e598f8d2d7.jpg?v=1765326154","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/134111","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}