The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
“This wonderful modern edition of Tolstoy’sThe Death of Ivan Ilyichappears side by side with the autobiographicalConfessionin a new translation by Peter Carson—perhaps even more remarkable for having been completed as Carson, a famed editor and previous translator of works by Turgenev and Chekhov, was himself dying…. Death has seldom been more starkly or plainly rendered…. Among the best treatments of death and belief in any art form…. A generous remembrance of Peter Carson by Mary Beard and a note comparing past translations complement an accomplishment in literature that belongs in every library.” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)“If you had one year to live, how would you spend it? That’s a question most of us wouldn’t know how to answer but for one British publisher and translator it was easy: to translate Tolstoy’s great story about a dying man,The Death of Ivan Illyich….” (Edward Platt - The Daily Beast)“This volume…for all its somberness of subject, is a vindication of the human spirit.” (John Sutherland - The Spectator)