The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Drawing on the experience of his own struggle to find enlightenment and a deeper spiritual understanding of life, Tolstoy in The Death of Ivan Ilyich takes us on the final journey towards death with Ivan Ilyich, who, falling victim to an incurable illness, ponders on his own life — its shallowness and lack of compassion, wondering what is the meaning of it all. At times sombre, at times satirical, Tolstoy's novel raises questions about the way we live and how we should strive even at the end to seek final redemption. It is a powerful masterpiece of psychological exploration, and has influenced writers as diverse as Hemingway and Nabokov.
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Leo Tolstoy. (2008). The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Unabridged Naxos AudioBooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Leo Tolstoy. 2008. The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Naxos AudioBooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Naxos AudioBooks, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Unabridged Naxos AudioBooks, 2008.
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- content: Tolstoy's novella offers a penetrating examination of the Christian faith and the nature of life and death. Listeners will also be sure to delight in Tolstoy's sharp and sometimes satirical eye for the very modern-sounding details of the life of a nineteenth-century Russian bureaucrat. With masterful ease, a warm tone, and conversational pacing, British actor Oliver Davies captures Ivan Ilyich's preoccupation with interior decorating and debt and his avoidance of family weddings and home remedies. Then the shadow of death wipes away all trivialities and pretense. This work's prose and performance are so vivid, so human, and so listenable that there's no doubt why Tolstoy stands as one of the giants of world literature. B.P. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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Starred review from March 31, 2008
In the lovely, low tones of a fine storyteller, Oliver Fox Davies guides us through the stages of Tolstoy's mini masterpiece. Davies's skill with inflection, even within words, heightens the social satire of the early section and shifts with Ilyich's slide into ever increasing pain and irritability. With the terror and anguish of approaching death, his voice grows convincingly hoarse. Until his illness, Ivan Ilyich had never reflected on his life. But he slowly comes to see his life as “a terrible, huge deception which had hidden life and death.” As he lays dying, his lifelong friends think of the promotions that may come their way, and his wife “began to wish he would die, but she didn't want him to die because then his salary would cease.” He has always avoided human connection, but through the tender ministrations of a peasant he comes to recognize the “mesh of falsity” in which he's lived. Written more than a century ago, Tolstoy's work still retains the power of a contemporary novel.
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