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Book Title
Death of Ivan Ilych (Annotated)
Publication Name
The Death of Ivan Ilych (annotated)
Title
The Death of Ivan Ilych (annotated)
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Translator
Louise Maude
Contributor
Louise Maude (Translated by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1518762484
EAN
9781518762482
ISBN
9781518762482
Publisher
CreateSpace
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Biographical
Release Date
25/10/2015
Release Year
2015
Language
English
Item Height
0.2in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
5.5 Oz
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
68 Pages

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia. Ivan Ilyich lives a carefree life that is "most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Like everyone he knows, he spends his life climbing the social ladder. Enduring marriage to a woman whom he often finds too demanding, he works his way up to be a magistrate, thanks to the influence he has over a friend who has just been promoted, focusing more on his work as his family life becomes less tolerable. While hanging curtains for his new home one day, he falls awkwardly and hurts his side. Though he does not think much of it at first, he begins to suffer from a pain in his side. As his discomfort grows, his behavior towards his family becomes more irritable. His wife finally insists that he visit a physician. The physician cannot pinpoint the source of his malady, but soon it becomes clear that his condition is terminal. Confronted with his diagnosis, Ivan attempts every remedy he can to obtain a cure for his worsening situation until the pain grows so intense he is forced to cease working and spend the remainder of his days in bed. Here, he is brought face to face with his mortality, and realizes that although he knows of it, he does not truly grasp it. During the long and painful process of death, Ivan Ilych dwells on the idea that he does not deserve his suffering because he has lived rightly. If he had not lived a good life, there could be a reason for his pain; but he has, so pain and death must be arbitrary and senseless. As he begins to hate his family for avoiding the subject of his death, for pretending he is only sick and not dying, he finds his only comfort in his peasant boy servant Gerasim, the only person in Ivan's life who does not fear death, and also the only one who, apart from his own son, shows compassion for him. Ivan begins to question whether he has, in fact, lived a good life. In 1984, philosopher Merold Westphal said that the story depicts "death as an enemy which leads us to deceive ourselves, robs us of the meaning of life, and puts us in solitary confinement." In 1997, psychologist Mark Freeman wrote: Tolstoy's book is about many things: the tyranny of bourgeois niceties, the terrible weak spots of the human heart, the primacy and elision of death. But more than anything, I would offer, it is about the consequences of living without meaning, that is, without a true and abiding connection to one's life ...

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1518762484
ISBN-13
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Book Title
Death of Ivan Ilych (Annotated)
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biographical
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
68 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
5.5 Oz

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