Everybody s path is distinctive to the point where there may be nothing in common between individuals. There is not a single similarity between the dying middle-class everyman Ivan Illych from Tolstoy s The Death of Ivan Illych and the libertine scholar Jean-Jacques Rousseau. However, just like the journey of...
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The sound of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" The sound of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is often mocking and ironic, and it is subtly pedagogical to a large extent. Tolstoy seems to be above all he describes. He exudes the aura of understanding all that needs to be learned (Tolstoy...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a classic novel that is widely considered one of Leo Tolstoy's greatest works of late fiction. It was written after Tolstoy's religious conversion in the late 1870s. This novel is an exploration of the fear of death that many people...
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