What Is Art
Tolstoy wrote, in What is Art? " If a man is infected by the author's condition of soul, if he feels this emotion and this union with others, then the object which has effected this is art: but if there be no such infection, if there be not this union with the same author and others who are moved by the same work-then it is not art?"
"The Death of Ivan Ilych" is art by this criteria. Tolstoy's writing keeps my attention throughout "The Death of Ivan Ilych" and awakens my soul. I have never read any literature of Leo Tolstoy, and I could not walk away from the story, I wondered what happened next. It makes me realize how important life is to be treated. This work of art expresses to me Tolstoy's views on life and death. The short story gives examples of how a person can live life the wrong way. In reading the "The Death of Ivan Ilych", many feelings stir up inside me because I can relate his experience with my grandfather that died of cirrhosis of the liver.
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