Ralston College | Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich @RalstonCollegeSavannah | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In this first episode of a new series, Stephen Blackwood reads Leo Tolstoy’s classic novella, ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich.’ A masterful text from one of history’s great writers, it tells the story of a man whose fatal illness forces him to confront the shallow assumptions of his life and the slowly encroaching, inevitable reality of death. ‘Ivan Ilyich’ is a timeless meditation on the fundamental content of life: finding purpose, loving others, and understanding our finitude.

The translation Stephen is reading from—easily found online, if you'd like to follow along—is by Louise and Aylmer Maude.

Links of possible interest: 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych
amazon.com/Death-Ivan-Ilych-Annotated-ebook/dp/B07X4TRT3D and elsewhere

Ralston College
https://www.ralston.ac

Ralston College Short Courses
https://www.ralston.ac/humanities-short-courses

Stephen Blackwood
stephenjblackwood.com

Timeline
0:00 - Intro
6:19 - Chapter 1
27:02 - Chapter 2
45:47 - Chapter 3
1:02:45 - Chapter 4
1:19:29 - Chapter 5
1:29:25 - Chapter 6
1:36:46 - Chapter 7
1:47:08 - Chapter 8
2:02:46 - Chapter 9
2:09:29 - Chapter 10
2:14:47 - Chapter 11
2:21:28 - Chapter 12

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