The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Resumen del libro

A stand-alone edition of Tolstoy's most famous novella, in the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

This translation was first published in 2009 in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, and now appears in stand-alone edition for the first time. Ivan Ilyich is a man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children; after an accident he finds himself in mid-life on the brink of death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. A masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity, Tolstoy's most famous story is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption.

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their versions of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married and live in France.

Biografía del autor

Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói (1828-1910). Es uno de los más importantes narradores de la literatura mundial. Algunas de sus obras más conocidas, como Guerra y paz , Anna Karénina o Resurrección , se consi deran como la cúspide del modelo rea lista occidental. Asimismo, su maestría narrativa, la profundidad de sus intuiciones y la exactitud de sus retratos psicoló gicos hacen de él un pensador moral tan destacado como fascinante. Por otro lado, sus reflexiones teóricas sobre la no violen cia activa, sus análisis en el terreno de la economía política y su reivindicación de la cultura campesina lo convierten en un precursor de los modelos actuales del de crecimiento y la desobediencia civil con temporánea, ajeno al paradigma del sabio solitario y cercano a la noción de inte lectual comprometido , cuyas propuestas son efectivamente susceptibles de servir de base para la transformación de nuestras sociedades. De entre sus obras, Errata na turae ha publicado también La revolución interior y Contra aquellos que nos gobiernan .