⛰ What It's About As the title suggests it’s about Ivan Ilych and his manner of death. Story begins with others hearing about the man’s death and reacting to it, then it moves on to the perspective of the title character, where we find out what kind of a man he was, how he lived his life, his regrets, troubles and bedridden thoughts. 🔍 How I Discovered It While browsing through Audible I saw a Tolstoy title that was surprisingly quite small in length, usually he writes everything as an epic. So this caught my eye and the title made it seem like a detective novel: “The Death of Ivan Ilych” 🧠 Thoughts It is mostly the musings of a man who just wants to go about his daily routine disturbed by the sudden death of his friend and musings of the friend about his approaching death. Overall it’s a contemplation on death and what it means to be alive. It gives an understanding of why many bedridden and sick people are so miserable even when everyone around them is trying so hard so ...
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