Passages from the Masters: Leo Tolstoy's ?The Death of Ivan Ilyich? (part 1). June 19, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments. It has been a long time since I've experienced a true vacation from medicine. One of my first cathartic actions ...
A book about the untimely death of a fairly shallow Russian gentleman seems an unlikely story to become engrossed in while on vacation in picturesque Dahlonega, GA, but this is exactly what happened to my wife and me while I finished ...
tolstoy finds righteousness not in the respected educated class, but rather in the working class, in the character of gerasim, a servant who worked in ivan's estate. through his sympathy, ivan began to realize what it was that actually ...