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Indlæser... The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (1960)af Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man s intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice greed and devotion lust and affection vanity and love one by one, in this volume of great stories, Tolstoy dissects the basic drives, emotions, and motives of ordinary people searching for self-knowledge and spiritual perfection. Chekhov said, Of authors my favorite is Tolstoy. And Turgenev marveled at the strength of his huge talent It sends a cold shudder even down my back He is a master, a master. Now with a new introduction by Regina Marler and an afterword by Hugh McLean." No library descriptions found. |
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Plot summary:
Ivan Ilych Golovin, a high court judge in St. Petersburg with a wife and family, lives a carefree, comme il faut life which is "most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible". One day, after falling from hanging curtains, he begins to suffer from a mysterious pain in his left abdomen. The pain becomes more and more excruciating. He is forced to visit physicians, who cannot pinpoint the source of his malady, although it soon becomes clear his condition is terminal. He is brought face to face with his mortality, and realizes that although he knows of it, he does not truly grasp it.