Adri’s Reviews > The Death of Ivan Ilych > Status Update

Iván didn’t live, he just existed while trying to replicate true fulfillment! His life was so boring and meaningless that this book being only 104 pages is proof of that

“He would go into his study, to lie down and be alone with It, eye to eye with It, and do nothing there with It. Just look at It and grow cold.”

It’s crazy because this illness he has could have probably been cured in 7 nanoseconds but since this is like the 1800s he suffered and died from it

“To live like that, on the very edge of death, was all he could do, without a single person who could understand or feel sympathy for him.”

Oh poor Ivan :’(