The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his horror, as he grapples with the meaning of life and death, that he is totally alone. Included in this volume is another celebrated novella by Tolstoy, The Devil, which addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience, providing at the same time a further exploration of human fear and obsession.
| ISBN | 184749191X | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781847491916
(What's this?) | | Pages | 144 | | Publisher | Oneworld Classics Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 181 | | Imprint | Oneworld Classics Ltd | | Published in | Richmond | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 04 Jul 2011 | | Width (mm) | 128 | | Translator | Hugh Aplin | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 891.733 | | Academic level | General |
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"[This book] is usually regarded as an amazing narrative of the experience of dying, a search for the meaning of death. It is all that, and more: it's a great questioning of what is and what ought to be in a human life." --Nadine Gordimer
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