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Radwa
Aug 29, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
كبداية، أعتقد أنني لو كنت قرأتها بالإنجليزية لكانت نالت الخمس نجوم بجدارة، ولكن الترجمة عكننت عليا.

يضم الكتاب رواية "موت إيفان إيليتش" و 6 قصص قصيرة، وهبدأ بريفيو عن الرواية:

الرواية تتحدث عن موت إيفان ايليتش. نقطة.
يتناول تولستوي في الرواية فكرة الموت والجدوى من الحياة، ويطرح أسئلة من قبيل "ما هو الموت؟ ما هي الحياة؟ وما الجدوى منها؟ وكيف نعيش حياتنا؟" دون أن يحدد لها إجابة حقًا.

الرواية فلسفية في نقاشها لهدف الحياة الطويلة والقصيرةالتي نعيشها، فهل نعيشها كما نريد ونرى نحن أو كما يرى المجتمع والمق
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Ileana
Dec 31, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
«Se daba cuenta de que nadie le compadecía porque nadie quería comprender siquiera su situación. Tan sólo Guerasim comprendía esta situación y le compadecía. Y por eso Iván Ilich únicamente se encontraba a gusto en compañía de Guerasim.»
La muerte de Iván Ilich [p. 61]

«El viejo diablo se fue de casa en casa. Llegó así a la de Iván y pidió algo de comer a la muda, que estaba haciendo la comida para su hermano. A fuerza de que los gandules la engañaran, pues se presentaban a la hora de comer y, sin
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Shirley (stampartiste)
How does one "review" a master like Leo Tolstoy? His writing transports you into the very essence of the beings he created on paper. In just a few short pages, Tolstoy was able to make me feel the smugness of Ivan Ilyich as he lived his well-ordered life, then the bewilderment as he realizes he is gravely ill to his great despair at realizing he is about to die. But Tolstoy doesn't leave it there. He also delves into how friends and family deal with a terminally-ill friend/relation. This book le ...more
Delirious Disquisitions
...he suddenly asked himself: 'What if my entire life, my entire conscious life, simply was not the real thing?'

The urge to buy a batterned and bruised second hand copy of this book so I can underline every single gut wrenching, horrific line and slowly rock myself back and forth as I grapple with my own mortality at 4 am.
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