"You could even feel your heart beating, because of what happens to humans when they hold too many things together in their heads or chests." It is the sensitive and intense voice of Federica Iacobelli that accompanies us in "Lev of the Clearing," to discover a part of his imaginary world, his thoughts, his words, and his stories. Chapter after chapter, we discover the story of Leo Tolstoy: being in the world becomes a quest to find one's own voice, distinct and all his own, and to translate every emotion, every fact into words; it is being able to become a writer to recount happiness and unhappiness, the visible and the invisible, the small and the large. [...] Each chapter is embellished by the illustrations of Pia Valentinis, which offer us a profound insight into the writer's life and his works.