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This article is from International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science , volume 1 . Abstract Medical practice and the field of humanities frequently intersect. It is uncanny how problems presented or described in literature that are several hundred years old still present themselves to us on a regular basis. Often, our answers to these dilemmas are not perfect, but we continue our attempts at providing solutions through an enlightened evolution of our thought and approaches. Leo Tolstoy's novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych, is a classic piece of literature that allows a view of the dying process in an ordinary human being, and presents us with an opportunity to observe, not only the intersection of medicine and humanities, but also that of critical care and palliative medicine. Here Tolstoy, through his keen observation of the human condition at the end of life, allows us an opportunity to view a 19th century perspective that has an all too familiar persistence that needs a 21st century intervention.

This article is from International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science , volume 1 . Abstract Medical practice and the field of humanities frequently intersect. It is uncanny how problems presented or described in literature that are several hundred years old still present themselves to us on a regular basis. Often, our answers to these dilemmas are not perfect, but we continue our attempts at providing solutions through an enlightened evolution of our thought and approaches. Leo Tolstoy's novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych, is a classic piece of literature that allows a view of the dying process in an ordinary human being, and presents us with an opportunity to observe, not only the intersection of medicine and humanities, but also that of critical care and palliative medicine. Here Tolstoy, through his keen observation of the human condition at the end of life, allows us an opportunity to view a 19th century perspective that has an all too familiar persistence that needs a 21st century intervention.

This article is from International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science , volume 1 . Abstract Medical practice and the field of humanities frequently intersect. It is uncanny how problems presented or described in literature that are several hundred years old still present themselves to us on a regular basis. Often, our answers to these dilemmas are not perfect, but we continue our attempts at providing solutions through an enlightened evolution of our thought and approaches. Leo Tolstoy's novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych, is a classic piece of literature that allows a view of the dying process in an ordinary human being, and presents us with an opportunity to observe, not only the intersection of medicine and humanities, but also that of critical care and palliative medicine. Here Tolstoy, through his keen observation of the human condition at the end of life, allows us an opportunity to view a 19th century perspective that has an all too familiar persistence that needs a 21st century intervention.

It is, perhaps, the problem of the so-called culture, or conventions of the bourgeois life at the heart of Tolstoy’s story, which hides “the bitter, useless pain of a failed and ruined life” (Lukács, 1974: 56) from Ivan Ilych’s eyes, and the problems aroused through it, encounter Ivan Ilych face to face with the absurdity of life, since “that denseness and that strangeness of the world is the absurd” (Camus, 1991: 11), and which way of life is denser than bourgeois life? However, in Ivan’s case, it is his fatal disease that finally opens his eyes to the light which has been covered before. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate the meaning of life and death in Tolstoy’s story, The Death of Ivan Illych, through Albert Camus’ theory of Absurdism, defined in his The Myth of Sisyphus, alongside three other sources about bourgeois style, one by Vladimir Nabokov, and two by the prominent Marxist thinker Georgy Lukács.

It is, perhaps, the problem of the so-called culture, or conventions of the bourgeois life at the heart of Tolstoy’s story, which hides “the bitter, useless pain of a failed and ruined life” (Lukács, 1974: 56) from Ivan Ilych’s eyes, and the problems aroused through it, encounter Ivan Ilych face to face with the absurdity of life, since “that denseness and that strangeness of the world is the absurd” (Camus, 1991: 11), and which way of life is denser than bourgeois life? However, in Ivan’s case, it is his fatal disease that finally opens his eyes to the light which has been covered before. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate the meaning of life and death in Tolstoy’s story, The Death of Ivan Illych, through Albert Camus’ theory of Absurdism, defined in his The Myth of Sisyphus, alongside three other sources about bourgeois style, one by Vladimir Nabokov, and two by the prominent Marxist thinker Georgy Lukács.

It is, perhaps, the problem of the so-called culture, or conventions of the bourgeois life at the heart of Tolstoy’s story, which hides “the bitter, useless pain of a failed and ruined life” (Lukács, 1974: 56) from Ivan Ilych’s eyes, and the problems aroused through it, encounter Ivan Ilych face to face with the absurdity of life, since “that denseness and that strangeness of the world is the absurd” (Camus, 1991: 11), and which way of life is denser than bourgeois life? However, in Ivan’s case, it is his fatal disease that finally opens his eyes to the light which has been covered before. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate the meaning of life and death in Tolstoy’s story, The Death of Ivan Illych, through Albert Camus’ theory of Absurdism, defined in his The Myth of Sisyphus, alongside three other sources about bourgeois style, one by Vladimir Nabokov, and two by the prominent Marxist thinker Georgy Lukács.

It is, perhaps, the problem of the so-called culture, or conventions of the bourgeois life at the heart of Tolstoy’s story, which hides “the bitter, useless pain of a failed and ruined life” (Lukács, 1974: 56) from Ivan Ilych’s eyes, and the problems aroused through it, encounter Ivan Ilych face to face with the absurdity of life, since “that denseness and that strangeness of the world is the absurd” (Camus, 1991: 11), and which way of life is denser than bourgeois life? However, in Ivan’s case, it is his fatal disease that finally opens his eyes to the light which has been covered before. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate the meaning of life and death in Tolstoy’s story, The Death of Ivan Illych, through Albert Camus’ theory of Absurdism, defined in his The Myth of Sisyphus, alongside three other sources about bourgeois style, one by Vladimir Nabokov, and two by the prominent Marxist thinker Georgy Lukács.

It is, perhaps, the problem of the so-called culture, or conventions of the bourgeois life at the heart of Tolstoy’s story, which hides “the bitter, useless pain of a failed and ruined life” (Lukács, 1974: 56) from Ivan Ilych’s eyes, and the problems aroused through it, encounter Ivan Ilych face to face with the absurdity of life, since “that denseness and that strangeness of the world is the absurd” (Camus, 1991: 11), and which way of life is denser than bourgeois life? However, in Ivan’s case, it is his fatal disease that finally opens his eyes to the light which has been covered before. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate the meaning of life and death in Tolstoy’s story, The Death of Ivan Illych, through Albert Camus’ theory of Absurdism, defined in his The Myth of Sisyphus, alongside three other sources about bourgeois style, one by Vladimir Nabokov, and two by the prominent Marxist thinker Georgy Lukács.

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