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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
“Death of Ivan Ilyich, which, I think — First of all, if you asked me who was the greatest fiction writer who ever lived, I would say Tolstoy.”
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- Dana Gioia
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- 7 Apr 2021
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…What’s your favorite Tolstoy short story or short fiction? Death of Ivan Ilyich, which, I think — First of all, if you asked me who was the greatest fiction writer who ever lived, I would say Tolstoy. His short stories are full of masterpieces, but the Death of Ivan Ilyich is simply one of the greatest considerations of human mortality and human limitation that I’ve ever read and reread and reread again. I might say Hadji Murat, though, because Ilyich is such a linear tale and Hadji Murat has the satire going on. It’s all about historical construction of reputation, deflating egos.…
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