a fly on the dead

[Lila W. Zaharkov]

At 10:50 PM 06/19/2007, you wrote:





how about Dostoesky's Idiot where Nastya is dead and a buzzing fly with 
Rogozhin in the room?
>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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