— Anonymous I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is. It relates to two things that I often contemplate on, time and life. Ivan Ilyich were driven to become successful before he gets ill. He believes that living to the standard of upper class is to only proper way to live a life. Because […]
Leo Tolstoy
Reading Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is complementary to the current state of the world…
— Jeremy Ramirez Reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is complementary to the current state of the world. A vast majority of people’s lives were interrupted due to the pandemic. We’ve been for many years in a deep nap of our reality and once in a while we are awakened in a state of […]
Honestly reading ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ made me think more about my own mortality…
— Patricia Alvarado Honestly reading ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ made me thing more about my own mortality and what people will remember about me. Ivan led a regular life he was a a run of the mill guy. Having this pause in my life happen if i’ve thought more about what I want to […]
The Value of Life
— Anonymous Reading Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich at a weird time like this, I would say, is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: no one thought they were going to be a good match until someone put them together, proclaimed about its delightful taste, and called it a day. But I […]
While I was reading the great work of Tolstoy …
— Ali Zandani While I was reading the great work of Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, a lot of thoughts and questions came to my mind, what if this great story of Ivan Ilyich was meant to relate to everyone that reads it? because I believe that this story of Ivan Ilyich relates to […]
