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Chekhov & Tolstoy.(Reconsiderations)
After he had written Anna Karenina, Tolstoy reacted against literature. He wanted henceforth to be a moral philosopher, a prophet, a sage, and a saint, rather than an artist. (How often we mistake the nature of our own gifts!) And many people subsequently fell under his didactic spell, even--for a time--Chekhov, a man one normally thinks of as being peculiarly unsusceptible to the siren-call of sages and saints. Chekhov the disciple--it sounds strange in the light of our image of him, but such, for a time, he was.
In 1886, Tolstoy published his first substantial work of fiction for nearly twenty years, the novella The Death of Ivan Illych. He started to write it ...
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...deaf you are 'absurdus.' An absurd life is where you are not listening or hearing any more. The liberation theologian Ivan Illych reckoned that change in society would only come through 'the telling of a new story'. The new story is all around us...
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...point only in the sense that we ought not to live egoistically. He makes this point by discussing Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Illych." But surely there is a difference between the egoistic disregard of others that Illych displays and a philosophy of self...
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- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) September 6, 2002 700+ words
...system. But is he bitter? Of course he is. Hence IVANSXTC (18), a rework of Russian novelist Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illych relocated to Hollywood with a searing performance from Danny Huston (son of John and director in his own right) as an ambitious...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 13, 1991 700+ words
...discussion and analysis of the following works: "The Dead," by James Joyce; "Rain," by Somerset Maughn; and "The Death of Ivan Illych," by Leo Tolstoy. The fee is $60. For further information, contact the GCCA at 943-3400.
Source: HighBeam Research, Chekhov & Tolstoy.(Reconsiderations)