Many scholars regard it as a counterpart of Walter Benjamin s "afterlife".

This article,through detailed analysis of "living on" and close comparison between it and "afterlife",intends to show that "living on",though coming from "afterlife",is,rather than its copy,its living on.

Many scholars regarded it as the counterpart of Walter Benjamin s "afterlife".

The core of Tolstoy idealism,a moral criterion as well as a meaning of human life,is equality and fraternity manifesting itself as non-violence against the evil,universal love for human being,kindness and self-sacrifice,which is actually human expectation of a better life,and because of which the mortal life acquires the spiritual strength of self-transcending.