In 1886, tolstoy described a man who did everything right and never really lived. today that man has a hundred million followers
There are books that age and books that wait. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, which Tolstoy completed in 1886, belongs to the second category. It was not waiting for a more educated reader. It was waiting for an infrastructure. It found one. Ivan Ilyich Golovin was a judge, a civil servant, a man of standing. … CONTINUE READING →