a fly on the dead

[siskron at SFSU.EDU]

You may be thinking of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. If I remember correctly, there 
is a fly in the scene where Myshkin and Rogozhin are watching N.F. body. 
Katerina Siskron
Quoting Evelina Mendelevich <emendelevich at GMAIL.COM>:

> 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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