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Article: Ivan Ilych
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Ivan Ilych
"The Death of Ivan Ilych" is widely regarded as one of the most powerful meditations on death and dying in world literature, at least in part because it anticipates modern psychological discussions of the stages of dying. Written in 1886, the novella was the Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy's first major work of fiction completed after his existential crisis of the late 1870s
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a crisis that initiated the search for a new understanding of Christianity that was to preoccupy him for the remainder of his life. The story is a fictional adaptation of Tolstoy's autobiographical work "The Confession" (1879
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1880), which recounts his personal struggle for ...
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