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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
By Leo Tolstoy & Peter Carson &Publisher Description
This wonderful modern edition of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich appears side by side with the autobiographical Confession in a new translation by Peter Carson—perhaps even more remarkable for having been completed as Carson, a famed editor and previous translator of works by Turgenev and Chekhov, was himself dying…. Death has seldom been more starkly or plainly rendered…. Among the best treatments of death and belief in any art form…. A generous remembrance of Peter Carson by Mary Beard and a note comparing past translations complement an accomplishment in literature that belongs in every library.
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“Read for LIT 202
"It is finished!" someone said above him.
"Death is finished," he said to himself. "It is no more."
Tolstoy's account of Ivan Ilyich's life is detached and intimate at the same time. The main theme of the story is that
- all mankind would like to believe that death is not for them personally
- we all come to a point in our life where we have to come to grips with our personal death
- in that place of reckoning, we feel very isolated from everyone around us”
cleansky7
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“Read for LIT 202
"It is finished!" someone said above him.
"Death is finished," he said to himself. "It is no more."
Tolstoy's account of Ivan Ilyich's life is detached and intimate at the same time. The main theme of the story is that
- all mankind would like to believe that death is not for them personally
- we all come to a point in our life where we have to come to grips with our personal death
- in that place of reckoning, we feel very isolated from everyone around us”
Hannah
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“I liked The Death of Ivan Ilyich better than Confession.”
About Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), a giant of world literature, is the author of many classics, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Other books by Leo Tolstoy
Peter Carson
Peter Carson (1938–2013) was the editor in chief of Penguin UK and Profile Books and the translator of Fathers and Sons by Turgenev and the plays of Anton Chekhov. He lived in London until his death.
Mary Beard
Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
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