This is my next read. Hope I can make it through!
This is my next read. Hope I can make it through!
More delicious Tolstoy. Three novellas about love and death. The opening, Happy Ever After, is a devastating and unflinching tale of first love that wears off. The title story starts with a wake and flashes back over a meaningless life understood too late. The final novella, The Cossacks, features a classic Tolstovian dissolute hero seeking meaning from life but struggling to escape the demands of the flesh. Superb stuff.
"Very soon, no more than a year after his marriage, Ivan Ilyich realized that married life, while affording certain comforts, was in essence a very complicated and burdensome business..."