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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
- Writer: Leo Tolstoy
- Category: Novels
- Pages: 80
- Stock: In Stock
- Model: STP-15273
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A respected magistrate and dutiful social climber, Ivan sustains a
trivial injury that evolves into a relentless, unnamed illness. As pain
erodes his work, decorum, and domestic peace, he confronts the
hollowness of a life arranged around status and propriety. Family and
colleagues deflect his terror with platitudes; only him with Gerasim,
peasant servant, unembarrassed compassion, modeling an authenticity Ivan
has never practiced. In his final days, Ivan recognizes the lie at the
core of his "proper" existence and glimpses a truer morality rooted in
sympathy rather than self-interest. That insight dissolves his fear:
pity replaces resentment, light supplants darkness, and death loses its
sting.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a stark, concise study of a man who has
lived "most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." It
remains a bracing, modern meditation on denial, conscience, and the
liberating clarity of mortality.
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| Pages | 80 |