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The death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Peter Carson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publisher: New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 224 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0871404265 (hardcover)
  • 9780871404268 (hardcover)
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. English. 2014
Contained works:
  • Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Ispovedʹ. English
  • Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha. English
Subject(s): Summary: In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," a middle-aged judge falls gravely ill and is shunned by his materialistic family; and in "Confession," Tolstoy charts his own religious evolution from his rejection of the Orthodox Church to his embrace of spirituality.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Tolstoy Leo Available 33111007478221
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January 2013. Carson, the eminent British publisher, editor, and translator who, in the words of his author Mary Beard, "had probably more influence on the literary landscape of [England] over the past fifty years than any other single person," must have seen the irony of translating Ilyich, Tolstoy's profound meditation on death and loss, "but he pressed on regardless, apparently refusing to be distracted by the parallel of literature and life." In Carson's shimmering prose, these two transcendent works are presented in their most faithful rendering in English. Unlike so many previous translations that have tried to smooth out Tolstoy's rough edges, Carson presents a translation that captures the verisimilitude and psychological realism of the original Russian text.

Includes bibliographical references.

In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," a middle-aged judge falls gravely ill and is shunned by his materialistic family; and in "Confession," Tolstoy charts his own religious evolution from his rejection of the Orthodox Church to his embrace of spirituality.

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