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The dead man lay, as dead men always do, especially heavily…. — Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” The meaning of life, the value of life, is a topic that fascinate us. Writers across generations seek to explain this very topic. Even in great works, such as Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and Albert Camus’Continue reading “An Encounter with Death in Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” and its Thematic Relation in Multicultural Literature”