The Riddle of Life and Death: Tell Me a Riddle and The Death of Ivan Ilych (Two By Two)

Type

Book

Authors

Tillie Olsen

Leo Tolstoy

ISBN 10

1558615369

ISBN 13

9781558615366

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Feminist, Anthologies, Short Stories, Contemporary, Literary, Reference & Test Preparation, Women Writers

Description

Masters of short fiction illumine questions of pain, suffering, medicine, fate, and, most starkly, “Why am I dying?” Circling in psychological time, Tillie Olsen depicts the death of a working-class grandmother, a past proletarian revolutionary in Russia, and how her death devastates her family in mid-twentieth-century America. Leo Tolstoy’s cancer-ravaged Czarist bureaucrat weighs his life, searching for semblances of meaning in a linear, realistic story. - from Amzon

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