Ebook {Epub PDF} The Duel by Anton Chekhov

In ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast. From the Inside Flap. First published in , this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his dependent mistress, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Von Koren, the scientist, delivers a scathing Cited by: 3.  · Anton Chekhov's the Duel: Directed by Dover Koshashvili. With Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies, Niall Buggy. In ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast/10().

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (/ˈtʃɛkɔːf, -ɒf/; Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, pronounced [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]; 29 January - 15 July ) was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Download The Duel Study Guide. Finally, theme and technique merge in a clear didactic statement that is not characteristic of Chekhov. Because no one can know the heart of another, and because. Reading Group Guide. 1. Like much of Russian literature from the nineteenth century, The Duel deals explicitly with ideas and ideologies and how they function in the "real world" depicted in the novel. Chekhov's story plots the conflict between two protagonists who espouse antithetical worldviews: Von Koren and his Social Darwinism, in which only the fittest should survive, and Laevsky.

Chekhov explores and rejects several methods for dealing with the world. His characters are all distasteful. The cold, hard science of Von Koren is violent and impossibly strict. Samoylenko’s compassion is touching, but finally useless. Nadyezhda Fyodorovna has potential, but wastes her life in vain flirting. In ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast. The Duel. (Chekhov novel) The Duel (Russian: Дуэль, romanized: Duél') is a novella by Anton Chekhov originally published in ; it was adapted for the screen by Iosif Kheifits in (as The Bad Good Man, starring Vladimir Vysotsky) and by Dover Kosashvili in (as The Duel).