What book has the best description of being old and about to die?
>>9070508
Death of Ivan 'the cuck' Ilyich
my diary desu
Charlotte's Web
Dubliners
>>9070508
King Lear.
That one by Hesse where the guy goes into the mountains.
>>9070539
What book did you read
Senilita by Italo Svevo
but it's more about ageing
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Stoner