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‘Notes of a Madman’, as we have seen, dealt with death by eliminating it outright: ‘there was no death’. The chief therapeutic accomplishment which the ‘madman’ — essentially Tolstoy himself — performs upon himself is to make the depressing thoughts of death go away.
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© 1998 Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
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Rancour-Laferriere, D. (1998). Tolstoy and His Mother. In: Tolstoy on the Couch. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14779-3_3
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