“Todos nós vamos morrer”: Ivan Ilitch e o fantasma do fim

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2025.85217

Keywords:

Morte, Ivan Ilitch, Inconveniência, Doença

Abstract

This article aims to present, based on a reading of a novel The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), written by Leo Tolstoy, a brief observation of the journey of facing death based on a dialogue with the research of French historian Philipe Ariès (2014). We seek to understand the change in perspective that took the West from a view of death as a natural and intrinsic fact of life, to the inconvenience of mourning, transforming the topic into a taboo, after going through, among others, the stages of fear, denial and shame.

Author Biography

Munike Martins Bonet, UERJ

Doctorate student in Literature Studies at UERJ with research on dialogues between female characters by English novelists and William Shakespeare. She has a Masters in Literature from UFT (2021) with comparative research between Eliane Brum and Edna O'Brien. She is a lecturer at UNIFAAHF, where she works as an undergraduate instructor, specifically in the Literature course. Other areas of interest are the rise of the English novel, intermidiality, Jane Austen and Victorian Studies. 

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Published

2025-01-28

How to Cite

Martins Bonet, M. (2025). “Todos nós vamos morrer”: Ivan Ilitch e o fantasma do fim. Palimpsesto - Revista Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Letras Da UERJ, 24(47), 649–661. https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2025.85217

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 47 (2025): Miscelânea

Section

Estudos de Literatura (Tema livre)

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