What is Art?

Tolstoy wrote, in What is Art? “ If a man is infected by the author’s condition of soul, if he feels this emotion and this union with others, then the object which has effected this is art: but if there be no such infection, if there be not this union with the same author and others who are moved by the same work-then it is not art?“ “The Death of Ivan Ilych” is art by …showed first 75 words of 1249 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1249 total…having them share the pain with them. In reading “The Death of Ivan Ilych” many feelings stir up inside because I can relate his experience with the way my grandfather lived his life. In reading this story, I also realized that I will always tell my family that I love them. Work Cited Tolstoy, Leo. “The Death of Ivan Ilych.” Ed. Rubenstein Roberta and Charles R. Larson. World of Fiction. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1993. 1148-1184