Proust and Tolstoy: Comparison
Memories, everyone needs them; and a good way of remembering personal memories, is to write them down. In the two stories, “Remembrance of Things Past,” and “The Death of Ivan Ilych,” the authors do just that. Marcel Proust’s, “Remembrance of Things Past,” is a novel that documents the romantic, social, and artistic coming of age of the narrator, bringing him to the point where he reconciles the two symbolic "ways," of his childhood memory: Swann's Way (the way of love) and the Guermantes Way (the way of society). In the story, “The Death of Ivan Ilych”, Leo Tolstoy writes about the reactions of a man, Ivan, and his friends, to his suffering and death. Although different in approach, both authors write their stories about personal life memories and experiences.In “The Death of Ivan Ilych,” Ivan is thinking back on his life as he lies on his deathbed. All that he wants is pity and there is no one there to give him it besides his servant Gerasim. Ivan starts to show signs of
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