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Reading Illness in Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych: Perspectives on Literature and Medicine
2016
English Language and Literature Studies
<p>This article seeks to establish the ambiguous nature of Ivan Ilych's illness in Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886), and it then proceeds to offer sociocultural commentary on an incurable illness that results in the death of the title character. Regardless of the exact nature of Ivan Ilych's illness, however, the story suggests that Ivan lived the "wrong" kind of life despite his self-deception and the lies of those around him. Some readers might be intrigued by the
doi:10.5539/ells.v6n1p59
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