The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Narrateur(s):
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Simon Prebble
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Auteur(s):
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Leo Tolstoy
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Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face-to-face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
The first part of the story portrays Ivan Ilyich’s colleagues and family after he has died, as they discuss the effect of his death on their careers and fortunes. In the second part, Tolstoy reveals the life of the man whose death seems so trivial. The perfect bureaucrat, Ilyich treasured his orderly domestic and office routine. Diagnosed with an incurable illness, he at first denies the truth but is influenced by the simple acceptance of his servant boy, and he comes to embrace the boy’s belief that death is natural and not shameful. He comforts himself with happy memories of childhood and gradually realizes that he has ignored all his inner yearnings as he tried to do what was expected of him. Will Ilyich be able to come to terms with himself before his life ebbs away?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy’s own life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina, during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
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- Barry
- 2024-04-22
Mark my words. This Tolstoy fellow is going to go places.
My enjoyment at reading er…. listening was slow in coming. A very short, very powerful study of a life lead, like any other. A questioning of life, love, family, career, friendship, community and ultimately death. First and ego death and followed immediately by a physical death.
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- Jade
- 2020-11-25
A wonderful reading of a difficult text
The reader does a fantastic job. But the text is difficult. Not for those who don't want to contemplate their own mortality and the mortality of others.
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- Stephanie Zee Fehler
- 2022-05-24
an indictment of modern life
still relevant in 2022. is there more to life? is "comme il faut" all that is required of me in order to say i lived a good life? this unflinchingly honest accounting of one man's life made me think again of how most of us work, live, work, compare, consume, and prioritize in our daily life and never zoom out to think about what the sum total will be.
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- Jeff
- 2022-01-06
That ending……..stillness
Beautiful, thoughtful, transcendent….. superlative wisdom.
Lessons all we can learn from.
The performance, outstanding.
Thank you Leo Tolstoy.
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- 2023-09-12
Excellent Reading
Simon Prebble is a fantastic reader. I listened to this book because of his narration of 1984. The subject matter is strangely inspiring and fearful at the same time. An excellent listen.
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