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Book Review of The Death of Ivan Ilych

The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Unlike Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Ivan has the decency to die up front. We do, however, get to retrograde through his brief biography and witness his frustration and agony through the progress of his terminal illness. In the course of its progress, he encounters in his physicians his own arrogance in the courts. His disease is personifiedhe sees it as having a life of its own. He gets to die again at the end.