SOURCE: Salys, Rima. “Signs on the Road of Life: ‘The Death of Ivan Il'ič.’” Slavic & East European Journal 30, no. 1 (spring 1986): 18-28.
In the following essay, Salys investigates the function of objects, imagery, and metaphorical language in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, contending that “although objects and language both point the way to Ivan's destination, the central metaphor for his physical decline and spiritual renewal is the road of life and related directional body movement.”
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