" Ivan ilyich saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair" this book shows that death is known before you kick the bucket...will you live your life unapologetically?
" Ivan ilyich saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair" this book shows that death is known before you kick the bucket...will you live your life unapologetically?
Sad, harrowing, universal. Small book in number of pages but immense in meaning. I recommend it.
"Tolstoy's book is about many things: tyranny of bourgeois niceties, the terrible weak spots of the human heart, the primacy and elision of death. But more than anything, I would offer, it is about the consequences of living without meaning, that is, without a true and abiding connection to one's life ... "(Mark Freeman)