a fly on the dead

[Carol Apollonio]

maybe obliquely, the end of Dostoevsky's "Idiot":

В ногах сбиты были в комок какие то  
кружева, а на белевших кружевах,  
выглядывая из под простыни,  
обозначался кончик обнаженной ноги;  
он казался как бы выточнным из  
мрамора и ужасно был неподвижен.  
Князь глядел и чувствовал, что, чем  
больше он глядит, тем еще мертвее и  
тише становится в комнате. Вдруг  
зажуужжала проснувшаяся муха,  
пронеслась над кроватью и затихла у  
изголовья. Князь вздрогнул.




On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Valery Belyanin wrote:

> Can it be "Golova professora Douela" after Soviet scifi writer  
> Alexandr
> Belyaev?
>
> Valery Belyanin
>
> On 6/19/07, Evelina Mendelevich <emendelevich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Seelangers,
>> I had something of a deja vu when I read the following description of
>> Dignam's corpse in Joyce's Ulysses:
>> "His face got all grey instead of being red like it was and there  
>> was a
>> fly
>> walking over it up to his eye."
>>
>> At first I was convinced I have seen a similar description of  
>> death in
>> Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, but I was wrong. As I am  
>> struggling to
>> recollect were I have seen this fly-Chekhov? Turgenev?-I seem to  
>> remember
>> that the episode I have in mind involves a husband dealing with a  
>> wife's
>> death. of course, I might be wrong again.
>>
>> Any information (the title of the story/author) will be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Evelina Mendelevich
>
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