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The Death of Ivan Ilyich (also Romanized Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch; Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized: Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Смерть Ивана Ильича
- 1886
- 1886
Overview. The Death of Ivan Ilych, published in 1886, is a novella by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It tells the story of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, a high-ranking judge in 19th-century Russia. Faced with a terminal illness, Ivan confronts the emptiness of a life lived for societal expectations.
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4.13. 165,635 ratings12,552 reviews. Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought.
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The story of Ivan Ilyich’s death is one of suffering, misery, and gradual decline. As a young man, he studies law and benefits from his father’s reputation. While in school, though, he begins to do certain things that repulse him: spending money frivolously, drinking, and having casual sex.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in Russian as Smert Ivana Ilyicha in 1886, considered a masterpiece of psychological realism. The protagonist’s crisis is remarkably similar to that of Tolstoy himself as described in Ispoved (1884; My Confession ).
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH .<:0 there was an understanding that, in case of his death, Alexeev might be named to his post, and to Alexeev's post either Vinnikov or Shtabel. So that, on hearing of Ivan Ilyich's death, the first thought of each of the gentlemen assembled in the office was of what this death might mean in
