CamagaKhan’s Reviews > The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories > Status Update

I'm pausing this collection of stories for a few weeks, as The Death of Ivan Ilyich is up next and I would like to read that novella with a clearer mind. I am still dissecting, Memoirs of a Madman. Existential Dread is a phrase I can never escape and to actually read about it in this collection left me speechless, as Tolstoy captures on the big unanswerable questions.

A phobia of death

The Prisoner of the Caucasus.

So, I'm eagerly awaiting a biography about a Russian monarch, and the idea of reading novels set from the 17th century all the way to World War II crossed my mind. So I compiled a list and am reading some literature that has stood the test of time. But when I started reading this book, I was immediately hooked by Zhilin's narrative at the hands of the Tartars.