The Death of Ivan Ilych
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A tale by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction.
Ivan Ilyich Golovin, a high court judge in St. Petersburg with a wife and family tree, lives a carefree life and like everyone he is aware of, he lives a life spent nearly entirely in climbing the social ladder, and his life starts to amass more hypocrisy as it goes on. Enduring life with a wife whom he regularly finds too demanding, he works his way up to be a magistrate focusing more and more on his work as family tree life becomes more miserable.
While hanging curtains for his new home one day, Ivan Ilyich falls awkwardly and hurts his side. As Ilyich’s discomfort increases, his behavior towards his family tree becomes more irritable. His wife finally insists that he visit a physician. The physician cannot pinpoint the source of his malady, but soon it becomes clear that his condition is mortal. He is brought face to face with his mortality, and realizes that although he knows of it, he does not truly grasp it.
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After reading additional reviews posted for this book, I am really, utterly confounded. I’d like to know — what is everyone else getting out of this that I’m not?!
Look, I’m not a person who struggles with hidden meanings or roundabout wording. I was reading Charles Dickens by the age of 11. But this… THIS I don’t know. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a rambling, ranting, overwritten account of some random fellow’s entire and entirely UNNECESSARY life tale, interspersed with events leading to his death. It isn’t an exciting death. It’s a very random, uneventful death. This entire book was a waste of my time to read, and a waste of the leader’s time to write as far as I can tell.
Really now. I mean REALLY, people… if a name can clarify to me why any of this is useful or extraordinary, why it even qualifies as literature, I’ll be pleased to listen. But I’ve wondered and pondered and read it over again to see if I missed some single, crucial sentence that tied it all together… and no. No, I’m sorry, but if Tolstoy proposed to communicate some lesson in the pages of this book, he failed miserably as far as I’m concerned. The man simply was not writing to whatever percentage of his audience I represent.
I guess it’s existential or something. Look… my advice is this: if you don’t start to get something out of it by the end of the first chapter, place it away and don’t look at it again. Ever.
Utter nonsense, I call it. Oy.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Sure, Tolstoy has some excellent thoughts in the book, and he expresses them well — but the thing is SO BORING. Here is a synopsis of the book “Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Ivan Ilyich dies.” I already KNEW that. The title gave the ending away! It has some unique thoughts on death and religion, but I would only suggest it to people interested in DEATH and/or RELIGION. To a name wanting to read a decent book — DO NOT PICK THIS ONE. If you’ve got to do a book report or something like that, I would DEFINETLY recommend this book. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE TITLE AND YOU KNOW BASICALLY ABOUT THE WHOLE BOOK!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I felt that this book lacked the kind of depth it needed to properly convey its meaning. Tolstoy rambles too much to make the tale truely *appealing*, and Ivan Ilyich’s untimely and having no effect end left me wondering “well, then, what was the point of writing the tale?” The only factor that convinced me to give this book two stars as a replacement for of one was that at least the fellow gave it a really excellent try. Basically, it’s too flat to cater to persons who delight in poetic or “flowery” writing, any messages Tolstoy manages to place across seem obvious and clichéd, and the characters have even less depth than the tale. Furthermore, Tolstoy’s apparent feeling about the scenery of humanity is bleaker than Poe’s. So if you want to read something meaningful with a mildly religious feel, go for George MacDonald or Peter S. Beagle and at least get a small enjoyment out of it. If you absolutely must read this book, though, take my advice and keep a bottle of Prozac handy. You’ll need it.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I chose to read this tale for a school project. I chose it because it seemed to have a excellent plot, etc. When I ongoing reading it, I thought to myself that it was just “a slow beginning” which many wonderful books sometimes have. Sorry to say, most if not all of this books contents were dull and uninteresting. This is MY personal opinion of this book. Also, DON’T choose this book for a school project if you’re trying to get a glimpse of the Russian culture, because there is really nothing here. Just a rich lawyer dying very slowly. That’s basically it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A magistrate becomes sick after hurting himself while hanging curtains. The mans life has no meaning nor value and no one cares that his is dying. Persons around him jockey for his position or concern themselves with securing a larger pension. A fleeting book, perhaps three hours long. Tolstoy’s books are engrossing because the reader sees himself in one of the characters. I look at Ivan Ilyich and see nothing of myself in him and so it is hard to appreciate the death of a worthless person.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5