/lit/ - Literature

>no Tolstoy yet
I am disappointed

>>10002438
If he takes it off he'd die of syphilis.

In all seriousness, define "good prose".

>he prefers Dostoevsky over Tolstoy

Guaranteed pleb opinion, kek.

Sometimes I see people saying that Tolstoy advocated non-violence, absolute pacifism and etc. I'm really interested in reading this.

Which of his works does he elaborate
on these themes most emphatically?

What does /lit/ think of Tolstoy?

What do you think of Leo Tolstoy's summary of The Four Gospels?

He divided it into 12 "chapters":

1. Man is the son of the Infinite Source of Being; he is the son of his Father, not by the flesh but by the spirit.
2. And therefore, man must serve the Source of his being, in the spirit.
3. The life of all men has a divine Origin. This Origin only is sacred.
4. And therefore, man must serve this Source of all human life. This is the will of the Father.
5. Service of the Will of the Father of Life is life-giving.
6. And therefore, it is not necessary to life that each man should satisfy his own will.
7. This present life in time is the food of the true life.
8. And therefore, the true life is outside time; it is in the present.
9. Time is an illusion in life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.
10. And therefore, one must aim to destroy the deception arising from the past and future, the life in time.
11. The true life is that now present to us, common to all, and manifesting itself in love.
12. And therefore, he who lives by love now, in this present, becomes, through the common life of all men, at one with the Father, the source, the foundation of life.

This also heavily influenced WIttgenstein.

You're telling me this guy's books aren't soap opera bullshit?