โ Leo Tolstoy
๐ Fiction
๐
2000
๐ DotLit Press
๐ UND
โ 60 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Death of Ivan Ilych
โ Scribed by Leo Tolstoy
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1612190804
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โฆ Synopsis
There is no explanation.
Written eight years after the publication of Anna Karenin a--a time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tracts--The Death of Ivan Ilych represents perhaps the most keenly realized melding of Tolstoy's spirituality with his artistic skills.
Here in a vibrant new translation, the tale of a judge who slowly comes to understand that his illness is fatal was inspired by Tolstoy's observation at his local train station of hundreds of shackled prisoners being sent off to Siberia, many for petty crimes. When he learned that the sentencing judge had died, Tolstoy was roused to consider the judge's thoughts during his final days--a study on the acceptance of mortality only deepened by the death, during its writing, of one of Tolstoy's own young children.
The final result is a magisterial story, both chilling and beguiling...
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