Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin is a novel by P. D. Ouspensky. In his classic novel set in the last years of Tsarist Russia Ouspensky imaginatively explores one of the chief themes in his philosophical work: the idea of “eternal recurrence.”Here is the story of Ivan Osokin a young man who has squandered every chance life has given him. A failure at school ruined financially and rejected by the woman he loves he finds himself at a dead end. He wishes to live his life over again so he can avoid all his mistakes. Then he meets a magician who gives him that chance. Strange Life of Ivan Osokin is a gripping cinematic story by the great Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky.