A morte de Ivan Ilitch

As part of Leituras do Centro Educativo, our actors will read to us, in three sessions, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886). Leo Tolstoy wrote this novel at the age of 58, after his conversion to Christianity and after the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In its brevity, this work rivals the previous ones, by giving us a concise and intimate portrait about the human condition. In the story of Judge Ivan Ilitch and in the retrospective look of a life in view of the imminence of its end, where all of our fears, doubts and questions fit. In this book of Apollonian and plain writing, life is revealed (too late) to Ivan Ilyich, “to be completely detached from everyone else”, as a lie if lived as an appearance, “a resemblance of human relationships”. And if redemption comes to him, in the end we are left with a powerful life lesson in our hands.

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26-28 May 2020 Tue-Thu 10 pm

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