The Death of Ivan Ilyich

On his deathbed, the seriously ill judge Ivan Ilyich looks back on his life - with bitter realizations: his job means nothing to him, his wife and he have drifted apart, all the pleasures he had with his friends seem to him in retrospect to be wasted time. In short: he wishes he had lived differently. Isolated from his family, Iwan suffers mental and physical pain, which his doctors are completely helpless to deal with. Tolstoy's tale of the agony of a disillusioned man is told by Gert Westphal, whose narrative art intensifies the great intimacy and power of language of the text. Unabridged reading with Gert Westphal 1 mp3-CD ca. 2 h 23 min