Death of Ivan Ilych

About “Death of Ivan Ilych”

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1886. It is regarded as one of his major works from his later period, written following his religious conversion in the late 1870s. The story explores themes of mortality, existential crisis, and the search for meaning through the life and death of its protagonist, Ivan Ilyich. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)