A review by paigemcloughlin
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

5.0

A book I read in lockdown last year about a wasted life going along getting along. Whatever the banality of the trite expression of following your dreams the wasted life of following expectations without a thought and compromising integrity for the comforts of a quiet life is worse. simple summation the unexamined life is not worth living and this book paints with the grotesquery of realizing on your death bed that the time spent was a waste. Very focusing book if heeded.