The Death of Ivan Ilyich
2 hrs. 32 min.
Description
One of the peaks of world psychological prose. Tracing the thoughts and feelings of a mortally ill official, Tolstoy shows how a person runs away from thoughts of death—and how death leads him to understand what his life was really about.
“This story is Tolstoy’s brightest, most perfect, and most complex work.”
V. V. Nabokov
“No people, anywhere in the world, have such a brilliant creation. Everything here is too little, too small, too weak, too pale compared to these seventy pages.”
V. V. Stasov
“I read ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich.’ More than ever, I’m convinced that the greatest of all writer-artists—ever and anywhere—is L. N. Tolstoy. Just him alone is enough to make a Russian person not lower his head bashfully when they tally all the greatness that Europe has given to humanity…”
P. I. Tchaikovsky
“This story is Tolstoy’s brightest, most perfect, and most complex work.”
V. V. Nabokov
“No people, anywhere in the world, have such a brilliant creation. Everything here is too little, too small, too weak, too pale compared to these seventy pages.”
V. V. Stasov
“I read ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich.’ More than ever, I’m convinced that the greatest of all writer-artists—ever and anywhere—is L. N. Tolstoy. Just him alone is enough to make a Russian person not lower his head bashfully when they tally all the greatness that Europe has given to humanity…”
P. I. Tchaikovsky
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