The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy
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The indignant and frightened thoughts of a good man who is, suddenly and inexplicably, dying: this is the crux of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, composed by Leo Tolstoy in the period just following his vehement conversion to a more virulent form of Christianity. A sharp criticism of the mediocre – and in Tolstoy’s view, meaningless – life being played out by an emerging middle class in Russia, Ivan Ilyich was written as a kind of warning against complacency masked as contentedness and a call for his readers to contemplate the possible meaninglessness of their own lives.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy- Amazon Sales Rank: #889646 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .21" w x 6.00" l, .30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 92 pages
About the Author Nikolai Tolstoy is a highly recognized and acclaimed historian and biographer. He was the sole beneficiary of his stepfather's will and is one of the trustees of O'Brian's estate.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Another Tolstoyan Masterpiece, as Opposed to the Kindle Edition By Eclecticism Five stars for the work, three for the presentation. If you think Tolstoy can only produce blockbusters like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, I assure you he can pack just as much meaning into a novella like Ivan Ilyich, which can be read easily in barely an hour. Not that you should try to speed-read your way through it; careful reading will be rewarded.This Kindle edition is not up to the standard of another Tolstoy book I just read, the Carefully Crafted Classics version of Anna Karenina. In the latter, there are several embedded footnotes that provide context, and every use of French is translated in brackets immediately following their appearance. In Ivan Ilyich, the French is simply set off by asterisks with no translation. Also, there are no explanatory footnotes at all; perhaps the compilers of this edition thought none were necessary. There are multiple typos, most of them involving the lack of capitalization at the start of a sentence. A few words, however, are wrong ("camp" instead of "came," for example).There are four essays that start this edition: on Tolstoy, on Tolstoy as Writer, on Tolstoy's Place in European Literature, and Works From 1886 to 1906. These are all interesting if rather old-fashioned, and much can be learned from them. There are a few formatting glitches that result in sentence fragments and hinder understanding. There are no serious errors, except as noted above, in the actual text of Ilyich.Bottom line: The price is right. Buy this Kindle edition, make allowances for the typos, and read it slowly. Somewhat depressing but definitely worth the effort.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Very Authentic By AvisE Brilliantly captures the rage and impotence of a man confronted with his own mortality. This novella starts slowly but as the net begins to tighten around Ivan Ilych it becomes hard to put down. His bursts of irrational hope in the face of death are heart rending. His recognition that much of his adult life has been wasted chasing after status gives him a sense of nobility at a time when his dignity has been taken from him. In accompanying Ivan Ilych to the very edge of the abyss we look into our own future and see what awaits us there. This book feels very authentic and only a very hard heart would fail to be moved by its pathos
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Review for Ivan Ilych By LB Song The marvel of Tolstoy is his instinctive grasp of the desperate choices humans face in life.He has an uncanny skill in both portraying our ability to love and hate, as well as our motivations and fears. When reading his stories, I often feel myself completely succumbing to his world, as if I've known the characters my whole life. The deep emotional and intellectual resonance of his works stay with me long after I close the pages.Such a work is The Death of Ivan Ilych, a short story published in 1886.In it, the reader can see the roots of the moral questions that Tolstoy himself will wrestle with his whole life. The primary question being: what is a good life?For Ivan Ilych, he had answered this question by leading a life that was, "the most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible". A dutiful Russian bureaucrat, his navigated life by relying on the good sense of society to decide what was proper. His chief pleasure came from a sense of his own power over inferiors, and secondary pleasures from playing bridge and indulging in bourgeoisie tastes at home.Yet throughout this innocent ascendance in social position, there were cracks that betrayed a denial of the truth underneath the life of "legality, correctitude, and propriety". The truth at last manifested itself in the form of physical and psychological pain, plaguing him endlessly and making life more miserable than death. Faced with this curse and sensing death's close presence, Ivan Ilych began to wonder, "What if my whole life had been wrong?".Ilych looked backed at his life, and realized suddenly, "all that for which he had lived- and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. This consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold."The book ends without answering the question of what is the right life, and the only clue the reader is left with is the fresh and sunny image of Gerásim, a peasant in Ilych's household. Gerásim alone sympathized with his master's pain. Yet, his simple nature was unperturbed by the thought of death, and presumably his close relationship with nature allowed him to view it as a natural cycle.In Gerásim's character, one can see Tolstoy's admiration for the life-affirming powers of the countryside, which is echoed in Anna Karenina and other works.Tolstoy peeled back the layers of ordinary life to remonstrate against its lack of meaning, but because he was just as human as his characters, he could not show the path to a correct life. He leaves us with the image of Ivan Ilych screaming during his last days in anguish, encapsulating a hidden existential malaise that Tolstoy would struggle with his whole life.thelittlebirdsong.com
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