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A review by avajax
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The IBS community is gonna looveee this one.
Bought the copy at a random garage sale and read in two days bc it’s so short. This book gave me wild nightmares so I do not recommend reading before bed. But seems I tend to appreciate a pathetic character that you’re forced to empathize with and see yourself in.
Falling into the inevitable chronic pain and disability that precedes death, and the isolation of that state within Ivan’s world is acutely bleak and this book captures it well. Not a fun read per se, but a solid one.
The intro in my edition was lovely, very cool to learn how this story specifically has influenced other writers in the literary canon.
Bought the copy at a random garage sale and read in two days bc it’s so short. This book gave me wild nightmares so I do not recommend reading before bed. But seems I tend to appreciate a pathetic character that you’re forced to empathize with and see yourself in.
Falling into the inevitable chronic pain and disability that precedes death, and the isolation of that state within Ivan’s world is acutely bleak and this book captures it well. Not a fun read per se, but a solid one.
The intro in my edition was lovely, very cool to learn how this story specifically has influenced other writers in the literary canon.