The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “A Confession was a book like that. In it, Tolstoy related a Russian fable...”
Words of a Pygmy by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “Reading Birukoff's life of Tolstoy makes it clear that Tolstoy's A Confession and My Religion were lies. Yet no heart is more painful than that of the Tolstoy who kept telling them; his lies drip more red blood than other men's truths. [auto-translated]”