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...