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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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bookshelves: audiobooks, classics, russia-russian-lit, short-stories, 19th-century, translated-works
Jan 24, 2017
bookshelves: audiobooks, classics, russia-russian-lit, short-stories, 19th-century, translated-works
A novel about perceptions and assumptions...
Through Ivan Ilych, we see the constructs and imagined communities that we build to secure and belong in society. We also see how others perceive pain and suffering: the doctor who dismisses Ivan's claims with "all sick people say that", as well as the other magistrates seeing Ivan's untimely death as a stepping stone for their own advancement.
Later in the book, we see Ivan's perceptions of the people around him as he suffers and dies: he assumes that people want him to just succumb and be die, but is that what was really happening? Did his wife and daughter truly wish him gone - his son the only one who loved him? Was he letting the past cloud his present?
Through Ivan Ilych, we see the constructs and imagined communities that we build to secure and belong in society. We also see how others perceive pain and suffering: the doctor who dismisses Ivan's claims with "all sick people say that", as well as the other magistrates seeing Ivan's untimely death as a stepping stone for their own advancement.
Later in the book, we see Ivan's perceptions of the people around him as he suffers and dies: he assumes that people want him to just succumb and be die, but is that what was really happening? Did his wife and daughter truly wish him gone - his son the only one who loved him? Was he letting the past cloud his present?
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January 19, 2017
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January 24, 2017
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19th-century
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