... World War I. This loss is pointed with special focus towards the feeling of the soldiers in the trenches. Leo Tolstoy's novel, The Death of Ivan Illyich, is a novel which creates both a modern and traditional atmosphere. Tolstoy's character, Illyich, in contrast to the underground man from Dostoevesky's novel, is able to illustrate the ... in literature went alongside with the rise of the feeling of isolationism in the world. This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. As ment...

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