Leo Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity
By Gilbert K. Chesterton & John C. Kenworthy
- Release Date: 2021-02-15
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
It is this consideration that lends a certain air of futility even to all the inspired simplicities and thunderous veracities of Tolstoy. We feel that a man cannot make himself simple merely by warring on complexity; we feel, indeed, in our saner moments that a man cannot make himself simple at all. A self-conscious simplicity may well be far more intrinsically ornate than luxury itself.
