{"product_id":"reading-tolstoys-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-in-russian-a-parallel-text-russian-reader-9781087982601","title":"Reading Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich in Russian: A Parallel-Text Russian Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in simple and sometimes shockingly blunt prose, Tolstoy's timeless novella is a masterpiece of his later work, combining relentless psychological observation with moral and spiritual urgency in its depiction of the death of an ordinary man, a certain Ivan Ilyich - a court official, husband, and father. Ivan Ilych is perfectly ordinary in the sense that his lifelong pursuit of outward decency in his work and family life - even home decor! - has obscured from him all deeper questions of life's meaning - questions he must suddenly come to terms with as he confronts his own mortality. Alongside this existential struggle, Tolstoy - with both compassion and clinical objectivity - documents dying as a physical and psychological process, involving both loneliness and despair, unrelenting suffering, and unexpected glimmers of comfort, human contact, and hope. Ultimately, Tolstoy suggests that a life dominated by the conventions of the world as we know it is somehow deeply wrong - but that every life has the capacity for redemption, even at the very end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned to help students of Russian begin to enjoy real Russian literature in the original without constantly reaching for a dictionary, this parallel-text edition features a new translation made specifically for this purpose, as well as detailed Russian vocabulary notes, including all the important forms you need (especially aspectual pairs and conjugation types for all verbs). The original Russian text is marked for stress, but is otherwise unedited and unsimplified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout the Author...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Franklin, Tennessee, Mark Pettus holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. Altogether, he's spent around six years living, studying, and working in Russia. Today he is a lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton. Mark is the author of the \u003cem\u003eRussian Through Propaganda \u003c\/em\u003etextbook series (Books 1 and 2), and its continuation, \u003cem\u003eRussian Through Poems and Paintings\u003c\/em\u003e (Books 3 and 4). He is now working on additional books for students of Russian, including the \u003cem\u003eReading Russian\u003c\/em\u003e series of which the present volume is a part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mark R. Pettus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487378280722,"sku":"9781087982601","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85d86aee-5479-4689-8aea-df287fc8015b.jpg?v=1730437250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-tolstoys-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-in-russian-a-parallel-text-russian-reader-9781087982601","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}