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    Two examples:

    1: “Death of Ivan Ilych”, Leo Tolstoy.

    2: “Notes from Underground”, Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Both involve contemplation, albeit different endings, yet neither saying “X is correct, Y is wrong”— there’s room to interpret and enough moral grey areas to make for an interesting story of a suffering man.

    by Xanriati

    4 Comments

    1. nobodyspecial767r on

      Thanks, found a compilation with both stories in it at my local library. Thanks for the suggestion.

    2. I’m not sure I follow, because I thought both stories were quite clear about their negative opinion of their main characters.

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