Ivan Ilych And Us
What it means to die ... and to live
I finished listening today to an audiobook version of Tolstoy’s novella The Death Of Ivan Ilych. You can read an entire English translation here, for free. I had an Audible credit, so I listened to it in the car. It is one of the most beautiful, penetrating things I’ve ever read (“read”).
Ivan Ilych is a successful judge and Russian bourgeois…
