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First published in 1891, 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 critique of Loevsky鈥檚 egotism, forcing the young man to examine his soul. The Duel is a tale of human weakness, the possibility of forgiveness, and a man鈥檚 ultimate ability to change his ways. It is classic Chekhov, revealing the multifaceted essence of human nature.


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First published January 1, 1891

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Anton Chekhov

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Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.

Born ( 袗薪褌芯薪 袩邪胁谢芯胁懈褔 效械褏芯胁 ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.

"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.

In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.

Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular M贸r J贸kai. People also mocked ideological optimism of J贸kai as a politician.

Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.

In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.

The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.

Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against Alfred Dreyfus, his friendship with Suvorin ended

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袛褍褝谢褜 = Du茅l = The Duel, Anton Chekhov

The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1891.

It was adapted for the screen by Iosif Kheifits in 1973 (as "The Bad Good Man", starring Vladimir Vysotsky) and by Dover Kosashvili in 2010 (as The Duel).

The story takes place in a small town. The main character of Laevsky is a young employee, who has moved to a small town to organize his life.

But he spends all day eating, drinking, gambling, and telling nonsense. This is at least the opinion of Von Koren, a German biologist, an active man who hates Laevsky so much that their resentment rises so high that Von Koren finds excuses to duel withLaevsky.

The night before the duel, it is time for Laevsky to reflect on his behavior, to realize that his past was nothing but futility, carelessness, and lying, awakening in him the fear of death but the tendency to live. he does. ...

One of the Chekhov's most famous figures in art is Laevsky, who bears many similarities to Goncharov's Oblomov. The central character is weak and hesitant. Without wanting to do evil, his hatred of those around him is a cover to cover his hatred.

More than a hundred years have passed since Chekhov's death, but his works still retain their appeal to literary enthusiasts around the world.

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Although there is an actual duel鈥攃omplete with pistols and seconds--in Chekhov's novella The Duel, the important conflict is between the personalities of Laevsky and Koren, two man who lack self-awareness and have allowed themselves to be governed by their distinct--and very different--attitudes toward life.

Laevsky is a finance clerk, an indolent, unremarkable man weighed down by the burden of gambling debts and a mistress. Yet he views himself as a Romantic hero, and feels that he could be some sort of artist鈥攐r at the least enjoy life like one鈥攊f he could only escape from this seaside town (and his mistress) to St. Petersburg. His rarified views prevent him from seeing himself for what he is: an ordinary man who has allowed himself to become a welcher and a cad.

Koren, a zoologist collecting sea-specimens, thoroughly loathes Laevsky. In line with his biologically deterministic attitude, he believes Laevksy鈥攁 worthless burden on the species鈥攄eserves to be drowned. Koren thinks of himself as a modern, a cold intellectual, and does not realize his contempt for Laevsky arises from old-fashioned morality and a chivalrous heart.

When the duel finally comes, it is neither a Romantic gesture nor a naturalistic inevitability, but an actual, realistic duel鈥攎essy, inconclusive, and more than a little absurd. And yet with it comes a self-awareness that changes at least three lives.

This is a fine novella, with great characters, great talk, sharp irony, and considerable humor. It manages to be very moving without being the least bit sentimental, which is a great achievement in itself.
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In The Duel Anton Chekhov creates a picturesque gallery of hollow personages鈥� The characters of the story are grotesque caricatures of vanity鈥�
Samoylenko, the army doctor is earthy and amiable, a simple heart, a crock of butter oil鈥�
With his big cropped head, short neck, his red face, his big nose, his shaggy black eyebrows and grey whiskers, his stout puffy figure and his hoarse military bass, this Samoylenko made on every newcomer the unpleasant impression of a gruff bully; but two or three days after making his acquaintance, one began to think his face extraordinarily good-natured, kind, and even handsome. In spite of his clumsiness and rough manner, he was a peaceable man, of infinite kindliness and goodness of heart, always ready to be of use.

His friend, Laevsky is a vacuous dreamer, a worthless milksop and a rotten nut鈥�
鈥淢y God!鈥� sighed Laevsky; 鈥渉ow distorted we all are by civilisation! I fell in love with a married woman and she with me鈥� To begin with, we had kisses, and calm evenings, and vows, and Spencer, and ideals, and interests in common鈥� What a deception! We really ran away from her husband, but we lied to ourselves and made out that we ran away from the emptiness of the life of the educated class.鈥�

And Laevsky鈥檚 paramour is just a soap bubble carried by the wind鈥�
She felt perfectly well, and was in a gay holiday humour. In a new loose-fitting dress of coarse thick tussore silk, and a big wide-brimmed straw hat which was bent down over her ears, so that her face looked out as though from a basket, she fancied she looked very charming. She thought that in the whole town there was only one young, pretty, intellectual woman, and that was herself, and that she was the only one who knew how to dress herself cheaply, elegantly, and with taste.

And the lovers lie and lie鈥� And when they get entangled in their lies like in the spider web everything turns into the farce鈥� And this farce culminates in the preposterous duel鈥�
An ordeal may change a man but stupidity remains invincible.
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賮賯丕賱 丕賱賱賴 : 賰賷賮 兀爻賯賷賰賲 責 賵賮賷賰賲 毓亘丿 賷亘丕乇夭賳賷 亘丕賱賲毓丕氐賷 賲賳匕 兀乇亘毓賷賳 爻賳丞 賮賳丕丿 賮賷 丕賱賳丕爻 丨鬲賶 賷禺乇噩 賲賳 亘賷賳 兀馗賴乇賰賲 賮賮亘賴 賲賳毓鬲賰賲 .
賮氐丕丨 賲賵爻賶 賮賷 賯賵賲賴 : 賷丕 兀賷賴丕 丕賱毓亘丿 丕賱毓丕氐賷 丕賱匕賷 賷亘丕乇夭 丕賱賱賴 賲賳匕 兀乇亘毓賷賳 爻賳丞 丕禺乇噩 賲賳 亘賷賳 兀馗賴乇賳丕 賮亘賰 賲賳毓賳丕 丕賱賲胤乇 .
賮賳馗乇 丕賱毓亘丿 丕賱毓丕氐賷 匕丕鬲 丕賱賷賲賷賳 賵匕丕鬲 丕賱卮賲丕賱 賮賱賲 賷乇 兀丨丿丕賸 禺乇噩 賮毓賱賲 兀賳賴 丕賱賲胤賱賵亘 賮賯丕賱 賮賷 賳賮爻賴 : 廿賳 兀賳丕 禺乇噩鬲 賲賳 亘賷賳 賴匕丕 丕賱禺賱賯 丕賮鬲囟丨鬲 毓賱賶 乇丐賵爻 亘賳賷 爻乇丕卅賷賱 賵廿賳 賯毓丿鬲 賲毓賴賲 賲賳毓賵丕 賱兀噩賱賷 賮丕賳賰爻乇鬲 賳賮爻賴 賵丿賲毓鬲 毓賷賳賴 賮兀丿禺賱 乇兀爻賴 賮賷 孬賷丕亘賴 賳丕丿賲丕賸 毓賱賶 賮毓丕賱賴 賵賯丕賱: 廿賱賴賷 賵爻賷丿賷 毓氐賷鬲賰 兀乇亘毓賷賳 爻賳丞 賵兀賲賴賱鬲賳賷 賵賯丿 兀鬲賷鬲賰 胤丕卅毓丕賸 賮丕賯亘賱賳賷 賵兀禺匕 賷亘鬲賴賱 廿賱賶 禺丕賱賯賴 賮賱賲 賷爻鬲鬲賲 丕賱賰賱丕賲 丨鬲賶 丕乇鬲賮毓鬲 爻丨丕亘丞 亘賷囟丕亍 賮兀賲胤乇鬲 賰兀賮賵丕賴 丕賱賯乇亘 .
賮毓噩亘 賲賵爻賶 賵賯丕賱 : 廿賱賴賷 爻賯賷鬲賳丕 賵賲丕 禺乇噩 賲賳 亘賷賳 兀馗賴乇賳丕 兀丨丿 .
賮賯丕賱 丕賱賱賴 : 賷丕 賲賵爻賶 爻賯賷鬲賰賲 亘丕賱匕賷 亘賴 賲賳毓鬲賰賲 .
賮賯丕賱 賲賵爻賶 : 廿賱賴賷 兀乇賳賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓亘丿 丕賱胤丕卅毓 .
賮賯丕賱 : 賷丕 賲賵爻賶 廿賳賷 賱賲 兀賮囟丨賴 賵賴賵 賷毓氐賷賳賷 兀兀賮囟丨賴 賵賴賵 賷胤賷毓賳賷
賱丕亘丿 兀賳 丕賱賯氐丞 賲賳 丕賱廿爻乇丕卅賱賷丕鬲 賵 賱丕亘丿 兀賳賴丕 賵乇丿鬲 兀賷囟丕 賵 賱賵 亘氐賷睾丞 兀禺乇賶 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賲賯丿爻
賲亘丕乇夭丞 賴賷 亘丕賱賲毓丕氐賶 賵 賲亘丕乇夭丞 賮賷 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇
賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱鬲賷 賴噩乇鬲 夭賵噩賴丕 亘丿丕賮毓 丨亘 乇噩賱 兀禺乇 賮鬲乇賰鬲 賰賱 卮賷亍 賵 爻丕賮乇鬲 賲毓賴 廿賱賶 兀禺乇 丨丿賵丿 丕賱丨賱賲
賵 乇噩賱 賴噩乇 丿賷賳賴 賵 丕賳鬲賴賰 丨乇賲丕鬲 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賮兀睾賵賶 爻賷丿丞 賲鬲夭賵噩丞 孬賲 禺丕氐賲 兀賲賴 賵 賴噩乇 亘賱丿鬲賴 廿賱賶 丕賱賲噩賴賵賱
賲亘丕乇夭丞 兀禺乇賶 亘賷賳 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 亘卮賵賯賴丕 廿賱賶 丕賱丨丿丕孬丞 賮賷 卮禺氐 丕賱賳爻賳丕爻賷賳 丕賱賲賴丕噩乇賷賳 丕賱毓丕卮賯 賵 丕賱毓卮賷賯丞 賰賲丕 兀胤賱賯賵丕 毓賱賷賴賲丕 賮丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 鬲卮鬲丕賯 廿賱賶 賲賳 賷丨胤賲 丕賱鬲賯丕賱賷丿 賵 賷毓賱賲賴賲 賱毓亘 丕賱賵乇賯 賵 丕賱爻賴乇 賵 兀氐賳丕賮 丕賱賮賵丿賰丕 賵 賱賰賳賴賲 賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 賳賮爻賴 賷丨鬲賯乇賵賳賴賲 賵 賷鬲毓丕賲賱賵賳 賲毓賴賲 賲賳 兀毓賱賶 丕賱爻賱賲 丕賱胤亘賯賶 丕賱賲賲鬲賱賶亍 亘丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 丕賱夭丕卅賮丞 賵 丕賱賮囟賷賱丞 丕賱賰丕匕亘丞
賲亘丕乇夭丞 兀禺乇賶 鬲噩丿賴丕 賮賷 賰賱 賯氐氐 鬲卮賷賰賵賮 毓賳丿賲丕 賷毓丿丿 丕賱賯賵賲賷丕鬲 亘賱賰賳丞 胤亘賯賷丞 爻丕禺乇丞 賵 禺氐賵氐丕 毓賳丿 丕賱廿卮丕乇丞 賱賱鬲鬲乇賶 賵 丕賱兀亘禺丕夭賶 賵 丕賱賷賴賵丿賶 賵 丕賱兀賰乇丕賳賶 賵 丕賱兀賱賲丕賳 賵 睾賷乇賴賲
廿賱賶 兀賳 鬲兀鬲賶 丕賱賲亘丕乇夭丞 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷丞 亘賷賳 毓丕賱賲 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賵 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳 丕賱賲賱丨丿 丕賱亘丕丨孬 毓賳 丕賱賲噩丿 賵 丕賱卮賴乇丞 丕賱賳鬲卮賵賶 丕賱賲鬲胤乇賮 丕賱匕賶 賱丕 賷丐賲賳 亘賵噩賵丿 丕賱囟毓賮丕亍 賵 丕賱毓丕賱賴 毓賱賶 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱毓丕卮賯 丕賱賲賱賵賱 丕賱匕賶 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷鬲丨賲賱 賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 兀賮毓丕賱賴 丕賱賴丕乇亘 賲賳 丿賷賳賴 賱丿賳賷丕賴 賮賱丕 兀丿乇賰 丕賱丿賳賷丕 賵 賱丕 丕爻鬲亘賯賶 丕賱丿賷賳
賮賷 丕賱賰賵丕賱賷爻 鬲噩丿 丕賱卮賲丕爻 賵 丕賱胤亘賷亘 賵 丕賱亘賯丕賱 賵 丕賱囟丕亘胤 賰賱 亘卮禺氐賷鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 鬲氐亘睾 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘乇丐賷鬲賴丕 賱兀賮毓丕賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賵 丕賱丨賰賲 毓賱賷賴丕 賵 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷賴丕 賮賷 鬲丿丕禺賱 賷亘丿毓賴 鬲卮賷賰賵賮 丿丕卅賲丕 賮賱丕 賷夭賷丿 賮賷賴 兀亘丿丕 毓賲丕 賷丨鬲丕噩賴 丕賱亘賳丕亍 丕賱丿乇丕賲賶 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞
乇賵丕賷丞 賯氐賷乇丞 賱丕 鬲鬲毓丿賶 丕賱賲丕卅丞 賵 禺賲爻賷賳 氐賮丨丞 鬲丨亘爻 兀賳賮丕爻賰 賮賷賴丕 兀賲丕賲 賲亘丕乇夭丞 卮賴賷乇丞 賱賲 鬲夭賱 鬲爻乇賶 賮賷 毓丕賱賲賳丕 賲賳匕 賰丕賳. 賮賷 丕賱亘丿亍 丕賱匕賶 賰丕賳鬲 賮賷賴 丕賱賰賱賲丞 亘賷賳 丕賱賮囟賷賱丞 賵 丕賱乇夭賷賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賱賵 賱賰賱賷賴賲丕 丿丕卅賲丕 鬲亘丕丿賱 丕賱兀丿賵丕乇 賵 賵囟毓賳丕 賮賷 丕禺鬲亘丕乇丕鬲 氐毓亘丞
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August 12, 2017
"賴賰匕丕 賴賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞.. 賷禺胤賵 丕賱賳丕爻 亘丨孬丕 毓賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 禺胤賵鬲賷賳 丕賱賶 丕賱丕賲丕賲 賵禺胤賵丞 丕賱賶 丕賱賵乇丕亍貙 賵鬲丿賮毓賴賲 丕賱丌賱丕賲 賵丕賱兀禺胤丕亍 賵賲賱賱 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱賶 丕賱賵乇丕亍貙 賵賱賰賳 丕賱卮賵賯 丕賱賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱毓夭賷賲丞 丕賱氐賱亘丞 鬲丿賮毓賴賲 丕賱賶 丕賱丕賲丕賲 賯丿賲丕. 賵賲賳 賷丿乇賷責 乇亘賲丕 賷亘賱睾賵賳 卮賵丕胤賷亍 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱兀氐賱賷丞 ."

丕賱賰乇賴 賵丕賱丨賯丿 亘賷賳 丕賱賳丕爻 賵丕賱匕賷 賷噩毓賱 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賷毓賷卮 亘噩賵 賲賲賱 賵賲賯乇賮.
賴賱 賲賲賰賳 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 賰乇賴賰 賱胤乇賷賯丞 丨賷丕丞 丕丨丿賴賲 丿丕毓賷 賱賲亘丕乇夭丞 賵鬲禺賱賷氐 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賲賳 卮乇賴.

丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賷賲賱賰 胤乇賷賯 鬲睾賷賷乇 丨賷丕鬲賴 賱丕 賷丨鬲丕噩 丕賱賶 丕禺乇賷賳 賷賯賵賲賵賳 亘賲爻丕毓丿鬲賴. 賱丕賳 賲卮賰賱鬲賰 鬲賰賲賳 賮賷 鬲賮賰賷乇賰 毓賯賱賰 賵賳賮爻賷鬲賰 丕賱鬲賷 鬲噩毓賱 丨賷丕鬲賰 鬲毓賷爻賴.
賮賰乇 賮賷 睾賷乇賰 賵賲丕 爻亘亘鬲賴 賲賳 卮乇賵乇 賱賱賳丕爻 賵丕賳鬲 鬲馗賳 賳賮爻賰 兀賮囟賱 賲賳賴賲. 賵丕賳 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 丕賱亘丕卅爻丞 爻亘亘 卮賯丕卅賴賲.

賴賱 賰丕賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱兀氐丿賯丕亍 丕賱賶 賲亘丕乇夭丞 賱賷毓乇賮賵 丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞責

氐乇丕毓 賳賮爻賷 賲噩鬲賲毓賷 乇賴賷亘 亘賷賳 兀卮禺丕氐 亘鬲賮賰賷乇 賲禺鬲賱賮 賵丕賮賰丕乇 賲鬲亘毓賷賳賴 毓賳 賴匕賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳毓賷卮賴丕 賲毓丕 ...
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January 12, 2018
鈥淚t flings the boat back,鈥� he thought; 鈥渟he makes two steps forward and one step back; but the boatmen are stubborn, they work the oars unceasingly, and are not afraid of the high waves. The boat goes on and on. Now she is out of sight, but in half an hour the boatmen will see the steamer lights distinctly, and within an hour they will be by the steamer ladder. So it is in life. . . . In the search for truth man makes two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes, and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the real truth at last.鈥�


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丕賱賲亘丕乇夭丞貙 丕賵 孬賳丕卅賷丞 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍貙 丕賵 丕賱鬲囟丕丿 丕賵 丨鬲賶 "丕賱丿賷丕賱賰鬲賷賰" ... 賰賱賴丕 丕爻賲丕亍 鬲氐丨 賱賴匕賴 丕賱賯胤毓丞 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞.

- 賲卅丞 賵禺賲爻賵賳 氐賮丨丞貙 囟禺賾 鬲卮賷禺賵賮 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 丕賱鬲囟丕丿 賵丕賱鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲 丕賱賰孬賷乇 丕賱賰孬賷乇貙 賱賷禺乇噩 丕賱賷賳丕 亘賯氐丞貙 賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 鬲鬲賰乇乇貙 賵賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 噩丕賳亘賷丞 賵毓丕丿賷丞 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞貙 賱賰賳賴丕 乇爻賲鬲 賲卮賴丿丕賸 賲禺賷賮丕賸 賱鬲賮氐丕賷賱 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱爻丕卅丿丞 丌賳匕丕賰貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 乇亘賲丕 賱丕 賷夭丕賱 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳賴丕 爻丕卅丿丕賸 丕賱賶 丕賱賷賵賲.

- 亘賷賳 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 丕賱氐丕禺亘丞 賵丕賱乇賷賮 丕賱賳丕卅賷 亘丕賱賲賰丕賳貙 亘賷賳 丕賱賲丐賲賳 丕賱賲夭賷賮 賵丕賱賲丐賲賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 亘丕賱丿賷賳貙 亘賷賳 丕賱賲丐賲賳 賵丕賱賲賱丨丿 亘丕賱賮賱爻賮丞貙 亘賷賳 丕賱賮囟賷賱丞 賵丕賱乇匕賷賱丞 亘丕賱賳爻丕亍貙 亘賷賳 丕賱爻丕丿賷丞 賵丕賱毓胤賮貙 丕賱噩賴賱 賵丕賱毓賱賲... 孬賳丕卅賷丕鬲 賰孬賷乇丞 乇賲丕賳丕 鬲卮賷禺賵賮 亘賷賳賴丕 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲.

- 丕賱亘賳丕亍 丕賱賯氐氐賷 賰丕賳 賲賲賷夭丕賸貙 賮丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱丕 鬲鬲氐丕毓丿 丕賱賶 匕乇賵丞 賵鬲亘丿兀 亘丕賱丕賳丨丿丕乇貙 亘賱 鬲禺賱賱賴丕 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱氐毓賵丿 賵丕賱賴亘賵胤 賵乇丿賮 賱兀賮賰丕乇 噩丿賷丿丞 賵賯氐氐 噩丕賳亘賷丞 噩毓賱鬲賴丕 賯賵賷丞 賵賲鬲賲丕爻賰丞 賲賳匕 亘丿丕賷鬲賴丕 丨鬲賶 賳賴丕賷鬲賴丕.

- 賱丕 賷賮賵鬲 鬲卮賷禺賵賮 賳賯丿 賱賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵丕賱賲毓鬲賯丿丕鬲:"丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 亘賱丕 毓賲賱 噩爻丿 賲賷鬲"賵 " 丕賱睾賳賷 賮賯胤 賴賵 丕賱匕賷 賷賲賷夭 賲賳 賴賵 乇亘賰 賵賲賳 賴賵 乇亘賷貙 兀賲丕 丕賱賮賯賷乇 賮賱丕 賮乇賯 毓賳丿賴"...

- 賯乇兀鬲 賳賷鬲卮賴 賮賷 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 賲賯丕胤毓 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵乇睾賲 丕賳 鬲卮賷禺賵賮 賱丕 賷噩賳丨 丕賱賷賴貙 賱賰賳賴 丕亘丿賶 丌乇丕亍賴 毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 毓丕賱賲 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳 賵丕賱胤亘賷毓丞.. 賵丕賱亘賯丕亍 賱賱兀賮囟賱.

- 禺丕鬲賲丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰丕賳鬲 乇丕卅毓丞 "賵賴賰匕丕 丕賱丨賷丕丞.. 賷禺胤賵 丕賱賳丕爻 亘丨孬丕賸 毓賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 禺胤賵鬲賷賳 丕賱賶 丕賱兀賲丕賲 賵禺胤賵丞 丕賱賶 丕賱賵乇丕亍. 賵鬲丿賮毓賴賲 丕賱丌賱丕賲 賵丕賱兀禺胤丕亍 賵賲賱賱 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱賶 丕賱賵乇丕亍貙 賵賱賰賳 丕賱卮賵賯 丕賱賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱毓夭賷賲丞 丕賱氐賱亘丞 鬲丿賮毓賴賲 丕賱賶 丕賱丕賲丕賲 賯丿賲丕. 賵賲賳 賷丿乇賷責 乇亘賲丕 賷亘賱睾賵賳 卮丕胤卅 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱兀氐賱賷丞"
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January 4, 2020
In the Olympics of Being Shitty, here鈥檚 Laevsky: his mistress鈥檚 husband dies and he doesn鈥檛 tell her for like a week, because he's afraid she'll want to marry him next. When he finally does inform her she鈥檚 a widow, he immediately climbs out a window to escape comforting her.

So he鈥檚 2000 rubles in debt and his big plan is to run off and ghost both debt and mistress. Dude鈥檚 a waste of genes, frankly, and someone should kick him out of the gene pool. Shoot this nimrod right in the head, is what someone should do. Right? No, I know it sounds harsh, but can you really argue we wouldn鈥檛 all be better off without guys like Laevsky?

This is the argument of von Koren, a scientist who represents that most insidious of villains: someone who has mistaken eugenics for Darwinism. Hoo boy, that never ends well. Let鈥檚 just super quick review what we鈥檙e talking about:

Darwinism, or evolution: Genetic mutations that give animals an edge in survival are favored, and those that handicap them disfavored, resulting in gradual change in a species.

Eugenics: We can help this along, by simply weeding out the Laevsky鈥檚. Eugenics is dumb because the metric is your opinion about desired traits, rather than empirical survival, and you (meaning humans) very consistently are wrong about everything.

Francis-Galton
Francis Galton, Darwin鈥檚 half-cousin and Man Who Looks Exactly Like A Man Who Would Invent Eugenics, who invented eugenics in 1883

Chekhov is engaging with Darwin here in 1891. 鈥淧rimitive mankind,鈥� says von Koren, 鈥渨as protected from the likes of Laevsky by the struggle for existence and selection; but nowadays our culture has considerably weakened the struggle and the selection, and we ourselves must take care of destroying the feeble and unfit.鈥� I鈥檓 not sure whether Chekhov himself has confused eugenics with Darwinism, or whether it鈥檚 just von Koren. We can definitely guess how he feels about von Koren, though.

But von Koren has a plan, and the book is literally called 鈥淭he Duel鈥� so that鈥檚 what the plan is. Von Koren鈥檚 putting his money where his mouth is. And will it work? Is von Koren going to murder a guy?



chekhov
Chekhov, surely one of our most fuckable authors

I love novellas. I love how they feel like accomplishments, but really easy ones. And I love this novella, one of the best I鈥檝e ever read. It鈥檚 a blast all the way through - funny and tragic, full of surprises. I love the characters, who are allegorical enough that you can feel clever for getting it, but not so allegorical as to be boring. I haven鈥檛 even talked about the poor mistress, Nadezhda Fyodorovna, who gets this treatment from her best friend: 鈥淕od marks great sinners, and you have been marked. Remember, your dresses have always been awful!鈥� There are much less funny parts: 鈥淕od鈥檚 world is good,鈥� Chekhov wrote once in a letter. 鈥淥ne thing is not good: us.鈥� The Duel is an exploration of the many ways in which we are not good, and the few ways in which we are.
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夭賳丿诏蹖 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲貙丕賳爻丕賳 丿乇 噩爻鬲噩賵蹖 丨賯蹖賯鬲貙丿賵 賯丿賲 乇賵 亘賴 噩賱賵 亘乇賲蹖丿丕乇丿 賵 蹖讴 賯丿賲 亘賴 毓賯亘 亘丕夭賲蹖诏乇丿丿.夭噩乇賴丕貙禺胤丕賴丕貙賵 蹖讴賳賵丕禺鬲蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 毓賯亘 倬乇鬲 賲蹖讴賳丿貙丕賲丕 鬲卮賳賴 蹖 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賴賲蹖賳 胤賵乇 賲蹖乇賵丿 賵 賲蹖乇賵丿 賵 賲蹖乇賵丿 賵 丕丿丕賲賴 賲蹖丿賴丿.賵 禺丿丕 乇丕 趩賴 丿蹖丿蹖責卮丕蹖丿 乇丕賴卮 乇丕 亘賴 爻賲鬲 丨賯蹖賯鬲 亘蹖丕亘丿.


丌賯丕蹖 趩禺賵賮 賱丕夭賲 賲蹖亘蹖賳賲 蹖讴 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏乇 亘賴 丕丨鬲乇丕賲 卮賲丕 丕夭 噩丕蹖賲 亘乇禺賵丕爻鬲賴 賵 讴賱丕賴賲 乇丕 亘乇丿丕乇賲.

丕讴賳賵賳 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 鬲賲丕賲 讴乇丿賴 丕賲 亘賴 噩丕蹖 丌賳讴賴 亘賴 讴鬲丕亘 賵 倬蹖丕賲蹖 讴賴 亘賴 賲賳 丿丕丿 賮讴乇 讴賳賲 亘蹖卮鬲乇 亘賴 賲毓賳蹖 蹖讴 賵丕跇賴 賮讴乇 讴乇丿賲貙"賳亘賵睾"
亘賴 乇丕爻鬲蹖 讴賴 丌賯丕蹖 趩禺賵賮 賳丕亘睾賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丨賯蹖賯鬲丕 禺丿丕賵賳丿诏丕乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴
賮賯胤 丕賵爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 丕夭 丿賱 蹖讴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 爻丕丿賴 賵 倬蹖卮 倬丕 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 趩賳蹖賳 丕孬乇蹖 亘蹖乇賵賳 亘蹖丕賵乇丿貙賮賯胤 丕賵爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 賵丕丿丕乇鬲 讴賳丿 讴賴 蹖讴 乇賵夭賴 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘禺賵丕賳蹖 賵 丿乇 倬蹖 爻乇賳賵卮鬲" 賱丕賵讴爻蹖" 亘丕卮蹖
丕蹖賳 亘丕乇 亘丕 賲賮丕賴蹖賲蹖 趩賵賳 丨賯蹖賯鬲貙賯囟丕賵鬲貙賳賮乇鬲貙卮乇丕賮鬲 賵 睾乇賵乇 胤乇賮 賴爻鬲蹖賲 賵 鬲毓丕乇蹖賮 趩禺賵賮 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴賱賲丕鬲 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 讴丕乇丕讴鬲乇賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 卮賳蹖丿賳蹖 爻鬲.趩禺賵賮 亘丕 乇蹖夭亘蹖賳蹖 賴乇趩賴 鬲賲丕賲 鬲乇 噩丕賲毓賴 蹖 乇賵爻蹖賴 乇丕 鬲乇爻蹖賲 賲蹖讴賳丿貙噩丕賲毓賴 丕蹖 爻乇丿乇诏賲 賵 禺乇丕賮丕鬲蹖 賵 賮丕賯丿 丕乇夭卮 賴丕蹖 乇丕爻鬲蹖賳
賲乇丿賲丕賳蹖 賲鬲馗丕賴乇 賵 乇蹖丕讴丕乇 賵 丌乇賲丕賳诏乇丕
賲乇丿賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 賴賲丕賳賳丿 乇亘丕鬲 丕爻蹖乇 毓丕丿丕鬲 鬲讴乇丕乇蹖 禺賵丿 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 鬲賳賴丕 丿乇 鬲禺蹖賱丕鬲卮丕賳 乇賵 亘賴 噩賱賵 丨乇讴鬲 賲蹖讴賳賳丿.賲乇丿賲丕賳蹖 賲賳賮毓賱 賵 睾乇賯 丿乇 乇賵蹖丕 賵 丌乇夭賵
賵 賳賴丕蹖鬲丕 丿賵卅賱
賲亘丕乇夭賴 丕蹖 丿賵 胤乇賮賴 亘乇丕蹖 丕毓丕丿賴 蹖 丨蹖孬蹖鬲 賵 亘丕夭 倬爻 诏乇賮鬲賳 睾乇賵乇
亘賴 诏賲丕賳賲 賴乇讴丿丕賲 丕夭 賲丕 丿爻鬲 讴賲 蹖讴 亘丕乇 丿賵卅賱 乇丕 鬲噩乇亘賴 讴乇丿賴 丕蹖賲貙卮丕蹖丿 亘丕 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 蹖丕 噩丕賲毓賴 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 禺賵丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵 爻乇賳賵卮鬲貙賳賴 賱夭賵賲丕 亘丕 丕爻賱丨賴
賲丕 亘丕乇賴丕 亘乇丕蹖 亘丕夭 倬爻 诏乇賮鬲賳 睾乇賵乇 禺賵丿 賵 亘賴 讴乇爻蹖 賳卮丕賳丿賳 丨乇賮 賴丕 蹖丕 孬丕亘鬲 讴乇丿賳 毓賯丕蹖丿賲丕賳 丿爻鬲 亘賴 丿賵卅賱 賵 賲亘丕乇夭賴 賲蹖夭賳蹖賲.
賵賱蹖 丌蹖丕 丿賵卅賱 丿丕卅賲丕鈥� 賱丕夭賲 丕爻鬲責丌蹖丕 賱丕夭賲 丕爻鬲 趩蹖夭蹖 亘賴 讴爻蹖 孬丕亘鬲 卮賵丿責
讴爻蹖 趩賴 賲蹖丿丕賳丿貙卮丕蹖丿 賴賲蹖賳 丿賵卅賱 亘丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵 丕胤乇丕賮蹖丕賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕丿丕賲賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 賲賲讴賳 賲蹖爻丕夭丿.
诏丕賴 亘丕蹖丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵 爻乇賳賵卮鬲 乇丕 丿乇 丌睾賵卮 讴卮蹖丿 賵 鬲爻賱蹖賲 卮丿 賵 诏丕賴 亘丕蹖丿 丌賳 乇丕 亘賴 趩丕賱卮 賵 丿賵卅賱 丿毓賵鬲 讴乇丿.

乇丕噩毓 亘賴 鬲乇噩賲賴:
鬲乇噩賲賴 禺丕賳賲 賮乇卮鬲賴 丕賮爻乇蹖 亘賴 賲毓賳丕蹖 賵丕賯毓蹖 讴賱賲賴 丕賮鬲囟丕丨 亘賵丿貙鬲賳賴丕 毓賱丕賯賴 亘賴 趩禺賵賮 賲噩丕亘賲 讴乇丿 鬲丕 丌禺乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇賵 亘禺賵賳賲貙丕诏乇 鬲乇噩賲賴 蹖 丿蹖诏乇蹖 禺賵丕賳丿賴 丕蹖丿 賲毓乇賮蹖 讴賳蹖丿 賱胤賮丕.
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April 25, 2023
乇賲丕賳蹖 爻丕丿賴 賵 噩匕丕亘 丕夭 趩禺賵賮 亘夭乇诏 丿乇 鬲賵氐蹖賮 噩丕賲毓賴 賵賲乇丿賲丕賳蹖 丌卮賮鬲賴 賵爻乇诏乇丿丕賳 夭賲丕賳 賵賯鬲 乇賵爻賷賴 讴賴 丿乇 賮讴乇 賵匕賴賳 禺賵丿 丕賳丿蹖卮賴 丕蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丿丕乇賳丿 賵丕夭夭亘丕賳 賵 丿賴丕賳 禺賵丿 丨乇賮蹖 丿蹖诏乇 賲蹖 夭賳賳丿貙賲乇丿賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 乇賵蹖丕蹖蹖 卮蹖乇蹖賳 賲蹖 倬賳丿丕乇賳丿 賵丨賯蹖賯鬲 賵鬲賱禺蹖 丌賳 乇丕 亘丕賵乇 賳丿丕乇賳丿 賵 丿乇 丿乇賵賳 禺賵丿 卮噩丕毓鬲 賵賯丿乇鬲 讴丕賮蹖 亘乇丕蹖 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 卮乇丕蹖胤 乇丕 賳丿丕乇賳丿 賵 蹖丕 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘丕賵乇 賳丿丕乇賳丿 賵賳丕诏賴丕賳 丿賱鬲賳诏 賵 賯丿乇丿丕賳 賴賲蹖賳 丕賵囟丕毓 丌卮賮鬲賴 禺賵丿 賲蹖 卮賵賳丿 賵亘丕 丌賳 丕賳爻 賲蹖 诏蹖乇賳丿 賵鬲爻賱蹖賲 噩亘乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵丨賯蹖賯鬲 丌賳 賲蹖 卮賵賳丿.
丕夭 賲鬲賳 讴鬲丕亘貨
"丕夭丿賵丕噩 亘丿賵賳 毓卮賯 丿乇爻鬲 丨丕賱 毓亘丕丿鬲 亘丿賵賳 丕蹖賲丕賳 丿丕乇賴"
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185 reviews472 followers
October 25, 2019
I just have read the cherry orchard by Chekhov and I find his way of storytelling attractive, in which he provides one with sufficient detail, yet one is allowed to add some imagination to the scene. I so very much enjoy the variety of characters he depicts, both in the duel and the cherry orchard one could see almost all type of males with different characteristics, so that one is able to identify with them and follow the story more eagerly. However, I find his female characters annoying, who are merely despairing, weak, and cheap, leaving one to pity them all.

鈥淎ny idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.鈥�

Of all the characters Von Koren amused and influenced me the most, and I really hope to find a friend like him. We all need people like him in our lives to save us from our daily pathetic routine!
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410 reviews246 followers
April 23, 2022
The Duel has been my first experience reading a Chekhov novella, and I must say that I truly enjoyed it.
The author actually knew how to develop his characters, and those characters鈥攚ho really have their own voice and a different personality鈥攁re the most important element in the book. Don't get me wrong, the story itself is also important, but I found characters' thoughts and dialogues absolutely deep and thought-provoking, being the most remarkable aspect of the novel.

As you can imagine, there is a duel in the novel, however, there is no only a real duel, but a symbolic one. Our protagonist, Laevksy, has his own ideology and beliefs about life, which contrast to Von Koren's beliefs, a zoologist, who is not friends with Laevksy at all and tends to be against him frequently.
Some discussions about meaningful topics such as evolution, religion, society, death, etc. (that are constantly taking place in the novel) are so necessary to understand every character's opinion, and to see how each of them is 'playing their role' in the story. I said to a friend of mine that I pictured the characters as the cast of a play, at which everyone has their own role, where they are doing their part properly, and finally, the curtain goes down and the finale turns out to be the beginning of something new, just like in real life. I was completely satisfied with that ending; in my view, the best part of the whole book.

In short, I would highly recommend such a beautiful work. It is very well written, has unforgettable characters, and besides, the author depicts accurately a true portrait of the society. There is even one character who somehow reminded me of Raskolnikov鈥攑rotagonist of Crime and Punishment鈥攄ue to they share a very similar ideology (needless to say that this fact made me go back to one of my favorite novels of my life).
I can't wait to read my next Chekhov very soon.

Love cannot last long. You have lived two years in love, and now evidently your married life has reached the period when, in order to preserve equilibrium, so to speak, you ought to exercise all your patience.
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307 reviews70 followers
September 7, 2019
"He had no need of the truth, and he was not seeking it; his conscience, beguiled by vice and lies, slept or was silent; like a foreigner, or an alien from another planet, he took no part in the common life of people, was indifferent to their sufferings, ideas, religions, knowledge, quests, struggles; he had not a single kind word for people, had never written a single useful, nonbanal line, had never done a groat鈥檚 worth of anything for people, but only ate their bread, drank their wine, took away their wives, lived by their thoughts, and, to justify his contemptible, parasitic life before them and before himself, had always tried to make himself look higher and better than them... Lies, lies, lies..."

What a bunch of unlikeable characters! However, what really matters is that Anton Chekhov is an acute observer of human nature, and as such the characterisation is excellent. He carefully ramps up the tension until the inevitable duel where passions reach boiling point. The duel itself serves as a catalyst for change.

"He dislodged his own dim star from the sky, it fell, and its traces mingled with the night鈥檚 darkness; it would never return to the sky, because life is given only once and is not repeated."
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September 25, 2022
效械褏芯胁 鈥� 屑邪褋褌械褉 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻芯谐芯 锌芯褉褌褉械褌邪 芦屑邪谢械薪褜泻芯谐芯 褔械谢芯胁械泻邪禄. 袙芯褌 懈 蟹写械褋褜, 袥邪械胁褋泻懈泄 懈 袧邪写械卸写邪 肖械写芯褉芯胁薪邪 胁褘胁械褉薪褍褌褘 薪邪懈蟹薪邪薪泻褍 胁芯 胁褋械泄 懈褏 屑械谢泻芯泄, 锌芯写谢芯泄, 锌褍褋褌芯泄, 锌芯褕谢芯泄 懈 薪懈泻褔械屑薪芯泄 写褍褕芯薪泻芯泄. 袨褋芯斜械薪薪芯 褏芯褉芯褕邪 袧邪写械卸写邪 肖械写芯褉芯胁薪邪, 褋 械械 泻芯泻械褌褋褌胁芯屑, 懈薪褎邪薪褌懈谢褜薪芯泄 褕邪谢芯胁谢懈胁芯褋褌褜褞, 胁芯芯斜褉邪卸邪薪懈械屑, 褔褌芯 胁褋械 械褞 谢褞斜褍褞褌褋褟, 泻邪泻 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪薪芯泄 屑芯谢芯写芯泄 写邪屑芯泄, 械械 锌谢邪褌褜褟屑懈 懈 斜械谢褜械屑, 械械 褍胁械褉械薪薪芯褋褌褜褞 芯 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪芯褋褌懈 芯写薪懈屑 屑邪褏芯屑 懈蟹斜邪胁懈褌褜褋褟 芯褌 写芯谢谐邪 锌械褉械写 袗褔屑懈邪薪芯胁褘屑 懈 褉械写泻芯褋褌薪褘屑 褋邪屑芯锌褉芯褖械薪懈械屑, 褔褌芯 写褍褕芯泄 芯薪邪 薪械 懈蟹屑械薪褟谢邪. 孝械屑 薪械 屑械薪械械, 屑薪械 锌芯泻邪蟹邪谢邪褋褜 薪械褉械邪谢懈褋褌懈褔薪芯泄 褉械邪泻褑懈褟 袠胁邪薪邪 袗薪写褉械械胁懈褔邪 薪邪 懈蟹屑械薪褍 袧邪写械卸写褘 肖械写芯褉芯胁薪褘. 袨薪, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 蟹邪 胁褋械 褋胁芯懈 薪械褉械邪谢懈蟹芯胁邪薪薪褘械 锌褉芯卸械泻褌褘 胁芯蟹谢邪谐邪谢 芯褌胁械褌褋褌胁械薪薪芯褋褌褜 薪邪 袨薪械谐懈薪邪 褋 袩械褔芯褉懈薪褘屑, 胁写褉褍谐 锌芯薪懈屑邪械褌 褋胁芯褞 芯褌胁械褌褋褌胁械薪薪芯褋褌褜 蟹邪 械械 锌邪写械薪懈械? 袨薪, 泻芯褌芯褉芯谐芯 褉邪蟹写褉邪卸邪谢 写邪卸械 蟹邪胁懈褌芯泻 械械 胁芯谢芯褋 薪邪 褕械械, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 芯褋褌褉芯 褔褍胁褋褌胁芯胁邪谢 谢芯卸褜 懈 褎邪谢褜褕褜 懈褏 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈泄, 蟹邪写芯谢谐芯 写芯 褌芯谐芯, 泻邪泻 褍蟹薪邪谢 芯斜 懈蟹屑械薪械, 胁写褉褍谐 锌芯薪懈屑邪械褌, 褔褌芯 褉芯写薪械械 械械 薪懈泻芯谐芯 写谢褟 薪械谐芯 薪械褌? 袙褘褉懈褋芯胁褘胁邪褟 薪懈泻褔械屑薪芯褋褌褜 袥邪械胁褋泻芯谐芯 懈 械谐芯 褋芯写械褉卸邪薪泻懈, 芯薪 锌褉芯褌懈胁芯锌芯褋褌邪胁谢褟械褌 懈屑 褍屑薪芯谐芯, 褉邪褑懈芯薪邪谢褜薪芯谐芯, 褌褉褍写芯谢褞斜懈胁芯谐芯 褎芯薪 袣芯褉械薪邪, 芯写薪邪泻芯 卸械 胁 褋胁芯械泄 谢懈褔薪芯褋褌薪芯泄 懈写械邪谢褜薪芯褋褌懈 芯薪 写械褋锌芯褌懈褔械薪 懈 卸械褋褌芯泻, 懈 写邪卸械 谐芯褌芯胁 薪械 薪邪 褋谢芯胁邪褏 褎懈蟹懈褔械褋泻懈 褍薪懈褔褌芯卸懈褌褜 褌邪泻懈褏, 泻邪泻 袥邪械胁褋泻懈泄. 袪芯屑邪薪褘 锌褉芯褕谢褘褏 褋褌芯谢械褌懈泄 写邪褞褌 薪邪屑 褍薪懈泻邪谢褜薪褍褞 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪芯褋褌褜 褍蟹薪邪褌褜 芯 斜褘褌械 谢褞写械泄, 卸懈胁褕懈褏 褌芯谐写邪. 效褌芯 械褖械 褋芯胁褋械屑 褍写懈胁懈谢芯, 褔褌芯 写芯泻褌芯褉, 写胁芯褉褟薪懈薪 小邪屑芯泄谢械薪泻芯 褋邪屑芯谢懈褔薪芯 谐芯褌芯胁懈褌 械写褍 写谢褟 褋胁芯懈褏 褌芯胁邪褉懈褖械泄, 泻芯褌芯褉褘褏 泻芯褉屑懈褌 蟹邪 写械薪褜谐懈. 孝邪泻 锌谢芯褏芯 斜褘谢芯 写芯胁芯谢褜褋褌胁懈械 胁 褉褍褋褋泻芯泄 邪褉屑懈懈, 褋褌芯褟胁褕械泄 薪邪 袣邪胁泻邪蟹械 懈谢懈 褝褌芯 械谐芯 褉邪褔懈褌械谢褜薪芯褋褌褜 懈 锌褉械写锌褉懈懈屑褔懈胁芯褋褌褜?
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It appeared that of all the people present not one had ever in his life been at a duel, and no one knew precisely how they ought to stand, and what the seconds ought to say and do. But then Boyko remembered and began, with a smile, to explain.. "Gentlemen, who remembers the description in Lermontov?"

Hey! I do!
And so, on this last day of 2019, The Duel rounds off my Russian season perfectly since it references the duel scenes in Lermontov's which I read in early November, but also recalls to my mind the duel in Pushkin's which I read soon afterwards. And in the course of his tale, Chekhov mentions Tolstoy and Leskov whose stories were part of my 2019 Russian winter too. Plus, The Duel is set in the same place as Vodolazkin's which I just finished. I've come full circle.

Other quotes I liked:
"I understand Von Koren very well. His is a resolute, strong, despotic nature. You have heard him continually talking of 'the expedition,' and it's not mere talk. He wants the wilderness, the moonlit night: all around in little tents, under the open sky, lie sleeping his sick and hungry Cossacks, guides, porters, doctor, priest, all exhausted with their weary marches, while only he is awake, sitting like Stanley on a camp-stool, feeling himself the monarch of the desert and the master of these men. He goes on and on and on, his men groan and die, one after another, and he goes on and on, and in the end perishes himself, but still is monarch and ruler of the desert, since the cross upon his tomb can be seen by the caravans for thirty or forty miles over the desert."

That description by one of the characters about another reminded me of Patrick White's . Voss was just such a one as Van Koren.

"The mole has a powerful thorax, just like the bat," Van Koren went on, shutting the box; "the bones and muscles are tremendously developed, the mouth is extraordinarily powerfully furnished. If it had the proportions of an elephant, it would be an all-destructive, invincible animal. It is interesting when two moles meet underground; they begin at once as though by agreement digging a little platform; they need the platform in order to have a battle more conveniently. When they have made it they enter upon a ferocious struggle and fight till the weaker one falls...
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October 26, 2019
One of Chekhov's most penetrating works. The Duel deals fundamentally with ideas and ideologies and how they function in the real world. Chekhov鈥檚 tale plots the conflict between two characters: Von Koren and Laevsky, who support antithetical worldviews, and not to beat around the bush, they end up in duel. We begin with the Russian aristocrat Laevsky who is a drinker, a gambler and a bit of a moaner, complaining to a military doctor, Somoylenko, whom he befriends, that he has fallen out of love with his mistress, Nadezhda Fyodorovna, and here Chekhov writes with a sharpe view of seemingly irreconcilable mutual isolation between the two, and as the story progresses, and Laevsky discovers Nadezhda's unfaithfulness, the grounds for their isolation seem to grow. Yet, with a change of heart, the two have reconciled by the end of the story. But One is left to ponder, just how convincing is this reconciliation? Another character, the Decon, despite his frivolousness, plays a pivotal role in the story, but overall, I like to think of Von Koren, the scientist and strict moralist as the most important. He thinks with contempt in regards Laevsky that people like him shouldn't exist, but on philosophical grounds not personal ones. This was such a dramatic, vivid and interesting piece of storytelling, and even though it's short, it delivers great depth, and has you thinking deeply on the questions it raises.
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June 9, 2022
45th book of 2022

An absolutely incredible novel. This was my first longer work of Chekhov's to read, and it didn't disappoint. I find Chekhov to be a master of character over a master of plot, yet I wouldn't want that to be any other way. The power of his characters is truly something special, and the way that he presents them places them on an equal plane with his readers, they feel palpable, they feel real. I have a video discussion for this fantastic novel posted on my BookTube channel which I will link to down below. I go into detail about the plot, as well as more in-depth with my thoughts on the work as well.

YouTube book review:
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April 11, 2016
" 賵賴賰匕丕 丕賱丨賷丕丞... 賷禺胤賵丕 丕賱賳丕爻 亘丨孬賸丕 毓賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 禺胤賵鬲賷賳 廿賱賶 丕賱兀賲丕賲 賵禺胤賵丞 廿賱賶 丕賱賵乇丕亍. 賵鬲丿賮毓賴賲 丕賱丌賱丕賲 賵丕賱兀禺胤丕亍 賵賲賱賱 丕賱丨賷丕丞廿賱賶 丕賱賵乇丕亍貙 賵賱賰賳 丕賱卮賵賯 廿賱賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱毓夭賷賲丞 丕賱氐賱亘丞 鬲丿賮毓賴賲 廿賱賶 丕賱兀賲丕賲 賯丿賲丕. 賵賲賳 賷丿乇賷責 乇亘賲丕 賷亘賱睾賵賳 卮丕胤賶亍 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱兀氐賱賷丞... "

亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賳 丕爻賲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賲亘丕乇夭丞貙 亘賷丿 兀賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賱賲 賷毓鬲賳賷 亘賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰孬賷乇賸丕.. 卮鬲丕賳 賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱賲亘丕乇夭丞 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵亘賷賳賴丕 賮賷 丕賱丨乇亘 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲 賱鬲賵賱爻鬲賵賷!
賲丕 毓丿丕 賴匕丕 賮丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 乇丕卅毓丞貙 亘丕爻賱賵亘 賲賲鬲丕夭貙 賵丕賳爻賷丕亘賷丞 賮賷 丕賱爻乇丿貙 賵丿賯丞 賮賷 丕賱賵氐賮貙 賵丨亘賰丞 賲鬲賲丕爻賰丞貙 賵鬲丨賱賷賱 噩賷丿 賱賱噩賵丕賳亘 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞.
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰卮賮鬲 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 賳賯丕胤 丕賱毓囟賮 賵丕賱兀禺胤丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 賳賯毓 賮賷賴丕 賰孬賷乇賸丕.. 鬲卮賷禺賵賮 噩乇丿 丕賱賳丕爻 賲賳 賲卮丕毓乇賴賲 賵賵囟毓賴丕 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲.
賰賲丕 兀賳 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賱賲 賷賰賳 亘賴丕 丕賱賱賲丨丞 丕賱毓亘孬賷丞 賵丕賱爻丕禺乇丞 賰賲丕 賴賷 丕賱毓丕丿丞.. 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賴賳丕 噩賷丿丞 噩丿賸丕 賵賲賳胤賯賷丞.
丕賱賮賰乇丞 賲賳 賵乇丕亍 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賲鬲丕夭丞貙 賵丕賱鬲睾賷賷乇 賮賷 賲噩乇賶 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賵賮賷 卮禺氐賷丞 "賱丕賷賮爻賰賷" 乇丕卅毓貙 賵兀丿賶 廿賱賶 乇賮毓 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞.
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June 16, 2019
鈥溾€橸ou said the other day that people like Laevsky ought to be destroyed. 鈥� Tell me, if you . . . if the State or society commissioned you to destroy him, could you . . . bring yourself to it?鈥�
鈥楳y hand would not tremble.鈥欌€�


Yes, Nikolay Von Koren, the zoologist is a man who knows, or thinks he knows, what life is all about, and this cannot be said about the object of his cold disdain, Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, who has come to that God-forsaken Caucasian coast town with a woman in his wake, another man鈥檚 wife. Anton Chekhov鈥檚 novella The Duel (1891) centres on the conflict between these two very different men, exploring a variety of topics and ideas in the process.

鈥滺e was perhaps very clever, talented, remarkably honest; perhaps if the sea and the mountains had not closed him in on all sides, he might have become an excellent Zemstvo leader, a statesman, an orator, a political writer, a saint. Who knows? If so, was it not stupid to argue whether it were honest or dishonest when a gifted and useful man 鈥� an artist or musician, for instance 鈥� to escape from prison, breaks a wall and deceives his jailers? Anything is honest when a man is in such a position.鈥�

Thoughts like this are the daily pastime of Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, who can afford to spent much time in these brown studies since, although being supposed to hold a government position, the government position actually holds him, without his doing any of the work that goes with it. This arrangement also leaves him leisure enough for gambling and drinking, two activities which generally demand the full attention of any man willing to excel in them. Laevsky, however, feels that he is the victim of circumstances and that he could do much better, achieve unheard-of things if only he were in Petersburg and not in that little Black Sea village where he went with a view to starting a life full of honest agricultural labour with Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, his mistress, who abandoned her husband for him. Unfortunately, though, he has by now grown tired of Nadya, whom he also holds responsible for his awkward and painful situation 鈥� it would not occur to him to blame himself 鈥�, and therefore he has started plotting to find a way of secretly going to Petersburg and leaving his unpleasant Caucasian life behind him, as one single episode soon to be forgotten. Laevsky is an especially cringeworthy specimen of a character often to be found in Russian literature, the 谢懈褕薪懈泄 褔械谢芯胁械泻, the 鈥渇eckless man鈥�, whose two best-known representatives are probably Eugene Onegin and Oblomov. Laevsky, however, is particularly disgusting because he wallows in self-pity, ingratiates himself with those who openly spurn him and has no compunction about scrounging on his avuncular friend, the na茂vely well-meaning military surgeon Samoylenko. He may consider himself a cultivated and high-spirited but misunderstood man, and still 鈥� according to his arch-enemy Von Koren, 鈥漑w]hether he walks or sits, is angry, writes, rejoices, it may all be reduced to wine, cards, slippers, and women.鈥�

鈥濃€橻鈥 Leskov has a story of a conscientious Danila who found a leper outside the town, and fed and warmed him in the name of love and of Christ. If that Danila had really loved humanity, he would have dragged the leper as far as possible from the town, and would have flung him in a pit, and would have gone to save the healthy. Christ, I hope, taught us a rational, intelligent, practical love.鈥欌€�

Von Koren is clearly not able to understand the basic idea of Christianity, because as a biologist he fails to realize that every human being is an individual. Instead, he is just aware of the human race as such and considers Laevsky, himself and his friend the Deacon 鈥� in fact, anybody else, too 鈥� as mere specimens of humans. For the betterment of the human race, as he defines it, Laevsky had better be drowned or otherwise disposed of lest his offspring weigh as an even heavier burden on mankind, and for the betterment of the human race, the improvement of its knowledge, the Deacon had better send his wife into a nunnery (she would understand, no doubt) and join Von Koren on an expedition. The reader may find himself at a loss as to whose egocentrism he should feel more disgusted with 鈥� the self-serving, mawkish one of Laevsky, or the cold and fascist variety of Von Koren?

Chekhov has Dr. Samoylenko exclaim repeatedly that Von Koren鈥檚 social-Darwinist ideas are terrible and that it was the Germans 鈥� Von Koren studied in Dorpat 鈥� who ruined him. In other words, it is Western influence that may not be too beneficial to the Russian soul, an idea that frequently occurs in many great Russians鈥� writings, by the way. Be that as it may, Samoylenko鈥檚 judgment on Von Koren also includes the following ideas:

鈥濃€橦is ideals are despotic, too [鈥 To Von Koren men are puppets and nonentities, too trivial to be the object of his life. He works, will go for his expedition and break his neck there, not for the sake of love for his neighbour, but for the sake of such abstractions as humanity, future generations, an ideal race of men. He exerts himself for the improvement of the human race, and we are in his eyes only slaves, food for the cannon, beast of burden [鈥 all this in the name of the improvement of the human race 鈥� And what is the human race? Illusion, mirage 鈥� despots have always been illusionists. [鈥鈥欌€�

When one comes to think of the deadly totalitarian regimes that would shape much of the 20th century in Europe and in Asia, one cannot but shudder at the prophetic drift of these words. They should, in fact, make us wary of all those who tell us that they work for the improvement of humanity and start meddling with people鈥檚 private affairs for the benefit of the future (as they see it). Often, this kind of ambitious impetus is rooted in the nettle-bed of resentment, petty morals and spite.

As these two men, Laevsky and Von Koren, reveal themselves to us through their thoughts and words, other events unfold themselves as well: Ironically, Nadya is not as fixated on Laevsky as the vain young man thinks but she has started an affair with another man behind her lover鈥檚 back, and although she wants to get rid of that second man, this does not prove as easy as she anticipated. Apart from that, matters come to a head between Laevsky and Von Koren, when passions run high during one of their altercations and the upshot of it all will be the eponymous duel. We are not going to talk about that duel here, although the way it happens tells us a lot about our two wranglers and its outcome, though disturbing for the brevity with which it is presented, gives us cause for hope.

All in all, The Duel can be read as a warning not to be too sure about one鈥檚 own convictions and not to be too rash in acting upon them, for at the end one of the characters comes to the following conclusion:

鈥濃€橻鈥 It is true that I see, to my great delight, that I was mistaken in regard to you, but it鈥檚 easy to make a false step even on a smooth road, and, in fact, it鈥檚 the natural human lot: if one is not mistaken in the main, one is mistaken in the details. Nobody knows the real truth.鈥欌€�

In that same light, I also liked another optimistic thought expressed by one of the minor characters towards the end of the novella:

鈥溾€橶hy are you angry?鈥� said Kerbalay, laying both hands on his stomach. 鈥榊ou are a priest; I am a Mussulman: you say, 鈥業 want to eat鈥� 鈥� I give it you. . . . Only the rich man distinguishes your God from my God; for the poor man it is all the same. If you please, it is ready.鈥欌€�

In times like these, one cannot be reminded often enough of this simple truth.
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Actors love Chekhov because he gives great direction, right to the spot where internal life rubs against external reality. We are never who we intend to be.

The remark belongs to Mary Bing, a screenwriter who adapted this short novel for the silver screen in 2010. I have chosen it , just as the editors chose to put it at the beginning of this great translation by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, because it expresses briefly the main conflict in the story, an internal debate between a man鈥檚 aspirations and the hard knocks he receives from a harsh reality. It applies to the dissolute young man Laevsky, to his shallow mistress Nadezdha and to his main adversary, the ambitious von Koren. Apparently, it also applies to the work of Anton Chekhov as a whole, something that I am more than willing to explore in further detail after the excellent impression left by this often delayed first foray into his world, where the passionate, turbulent Russian soul is pitched against the social and philosophical trends of the times.

The duel it dramatizes, before it becomes literal, is a conflict of ideas between the two main phases of the Russian intelligentsia in the nineteen century, the liberal idealism of the 1840s and the rational egoism of the 1860s.

The setting itself is a reflection of this conflict between expectations and reality, a dramatic scenery that isolates and exacerbates the internal struggle of the characters who move inside the landscape as ants performing a ritual dance.

As she was going to the Caucasus, it had seemed to her that on the very first day, she would find there a secluded nook on the coast, a cozy garden with shade, birds, brooks, where she could plant flowers and vegetables, raise ducks and chickens, receive neighbors, treat poor muzhiks and distribute books to them; but it turned out that the Caucasus was bare mountains, forests, and enormous valleys, where you had to spend a long day choosing, bustling about, building, and that there weren鈥檛 any neighbors there, and it was very hot, and they could be robbed.

Far away from the fashionable saloons in Moscow or Leningrad, marooned like shipwrecked travellers between the forbidding mountains and the stifling seaside of the Caucasus region, two men are thinking of their future, each one according to his own nature. Laevsky, a young civil servant who lives openly with his married mistress Nadya, complains constantly about his depression and his lack of perspective, and dreams only of escape from his current situation.

Samoilenko liked his friend. He saw in Laevsky a good fellow, a student, an easygoing man with whom one could have a drink and a laugh and a heart-to-heart talk. What he understood in him, he greatly disliked. Laevsky drank a great deal and not at the right time, played cards, despised his job, lived beyond his means, often used indecent expressions in conversation, went about in slippers, and quarrelled with Nadezdha Fyodorovna in front of strangers 鈥� and that Samoilenko did not like.

Von Koren, a zoologist who plans an ambitious expedition to Siberia, considers himself a researcher of human nature, and he has appointed himself jury and executioner of a much need moral cleansing of a community drawn into mud by the likes of the decadent Laevsky and Nadya.

鈥淩ender him harmless. Since he鈥檚 incorrigible, there鈥檚 only one way he can be rendered harmless ...鈥�
Von Koren drew a finger across his neck.
鈥淥r drown him, maybe ...鈥� he added. 鈥淚n the interests of mankind and in their own interests, such people should be destroyed. Without fail.鈥�


Both Laevsky and von Koren, who strongly dislike each other, meet in the middle, in the house of the military doctor Samoilenko, an epicurean, laid-back figure who likes people and wants peace and is the only truly likeable character in the novella. I like to imagine that the author has inserted himself in the story, in this personage that has the same profession as Chekhov and the same determination to help his fellow men instead of judging them. Samoilenko鈥檚 good intentions are sabotaged by the misplaced pride of his two friends, and by their almost irrational hatred of what the other represents.

The intellectual Laevsky is well aware of his shortcomings, and of the frivolous nature of his mistress, but instead of taking action he wastes his time in lazy speculation, gambling and drinking. Chekhov, who was himself an avid reader, constructed Laevsky out of the mould established by Pushkin, Lermontov and Turgeniev. Later there are clear references that Nadya is a response to Tolstoy鈥檚 Anna Karenina.

... in answer to all my questions, he would smile bitterly, sigh, and say: 鈥業鈥檓 a luckless fellow, a superfluous man,鈥� or 鈥榃hat do you want, old boy, from us remnants of serfdom,鈥� or 鈥榃e鈥檙e degenerating ... 鈥� Or he would start pouring out some lengthy drivel about Onegin, Pechorin, Byron鈥檚 Cain, Bazarov, of whom he said: 鈥楾hey are our fathers in flesh and spirit.鈥�

Von Koren, as his German surname would suggest, is the scion of a much more dangerous school of thought, one that falsely applies Darwin鈥檚 theory to social interactions and one that would ultimately lead to Aryan politics and concentration camps for the indesirables.

鈥淩emember only one thing, Alexander Davidych, that primitive mankind was protected from the likes of Laevsky by the struggle for existence and selection; but nowadays our culture has considerably weakened the struggle and the selection, and we ourselves must take care of destroying the feeble and unfit, or else, as the Laevskys multiply, civilization will perish and mankind will become totally degenerate. It will be our fault.鈥�

The two men, despite their shortcomings, do show some intellectual prowess, but the poor Nadezdha Fyodorovna seems incapable of rational analysis. She is a slave to her own impulsive and fickle temperament. ( Her self-deception is as devastating as his self-consciousness. observes Mary Bing)
Nadya considers herself the most beautiful woman in the remote seaside resort, and asks for constant validation from Laevsky and, in his frequent absence, even from strangers.

The long, unbearably hot, boring days, the beautiful, languorous evenings, the stifling nights, and this whole life, when one did not know from morning to evening how to spend the useless time, and the importunate thoughts that she was the most beautiful young woman in town and that her youth was going for naught, and Laevsky himself, an honest man with ideas, but monotonous, eternally shuffling in his slippers, biting his nails, and boring her with his caprice 鈥� resulted in her being gradually overcome with desires, and, like a madwoman, she thought day and night about one and the same thing. In her breathing, in her glance, in the tone of her voice, and in her gait 鈥� all she felt was desire; the sound of the sea told her she had to love, so did the evening darkness, so did the mountains ...

Chekhov is merciless in his dissection of these characters, his satirical eye uncovering every foible, every comfortable lie these people use in order to justify their life choices. And he makes it very hard for the reader to bestow a sympathetic eye either on Von Koren or Laevsky or Nadya. My final choice is of course the gourmand, slightly comical in his eagerness to please Samoilenko, although even he lets himself be swayed alternatively by the arguments of the two ideological rivals. For example, Laevsky complains that von Koren doesn鈥檛 give him a fair chance:

And he鈥檚 living for the second summer in this stinking little town, because it鈥檚 better to be first in a village than second in a city. Here he鈥檚 king and an eagle; he鈥檚 got all the inhabitants under his thumb and oppresses them with his authority. He鈥檚 taken everybody in hand, he interferes in other people鈥檚 affairs, he wants to be in on everything, and everybody鈥檚 afraid of him. I鈥檓 slipping out from under his paw, he senses it, and he hates me.
[...]
Ordinary mortals, if they work for the general benefit, have their neighbor in mind 鈥� me, you, in short, a human being. But for von Koren, people are puppies and non-entities, too small to be the goal of his life.

... while von Koren loses no time underlining Laevsky鈥檚 dissolute and irresponsible way of life, and the moral turpitude of his relationship with the unfaithful Nadya. The two men escalate their conflict of words until a physical confrontation becomes unavoidable, leading to the actual duel alluded to in the title. The satirical piece gains tragedy value, as pride and obstinacy refuse to listen to the more balanced voices of the local doctor and vicar.

Looking at his pale, agitated, kindly face, Samoilenko remembered von Koren鈥檚 opinion that such people should be destroyed, and Laevsky seemed to him a weak, defenceless child whom anyone could offend and destroy.

Not a single word seems out of place in this tightly constructed and excellently argued debate between two opposing ideologies. Chekhov manages to avoid both the sentimental excesses of Dostoyevsky and the ponderous, sometime long-winded moralizing tone of Tolstoy. His characterization meanwhile is nuanced and insightful, a persuasive argument that he is the true master of the modern novel over his two more famous Russian colleagues. Again, I go to Mary Bing for the relevant quotation:

Chekhov鈥檚 work has a unique transparence. How on earth did he see inside all of us so clearly?

Finally, the author is also capable of offering us a credible solution for getting out of the bloody impasse between Laevsky and von Koren with a healthy dose of black comedy and a little more capacity for empathy and for hope in his fellow men than the preceding pages warranted:

In search of the truth, people make two steps forward and one step back. Sufferings, mistakes, and the tedium of life throw them back, but the thirst for truth and a stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Maybe they鈥檒l row their way to the real truth ...

Let us all hope Chekhov was right, and we will all manage to step back from the brink of disaster before it is to late.

Gentleness and a kind word are higher than alms. You have revived me.
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July 30, 2021
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August 23, 2022
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February 1, 2018
賴蹖趩 讴爻 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賵丕賯毓蹖 乇賵 賳賲蹖 丿賵賳賴 ....
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October 18, 2022
The Duel is Beckett with great hats.
Review of the Vintage paperback edition (2010) translated by & from the Russian language original (1891)

The Duel (1891) was a novella that Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) wrote concurrently with the first parts of his non-fiction accounts of penal colony conditions on "Sakhalin Island" (1891-1895). I read the recent translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky where only the one novella was published as a tie-in edition to the 2010 feature film version directed by Dover Kosashvili with a screenplay by Mary Bing. Mary Bing's foreword in this edition provides a great entry point to reading the work:
... take heart, Chekhov loves life. The Duel is Beckett with great hats. And naked women, and guns that go off, and an absolution that extends to its audience. May we have the grace to take it.


Introducing the idea of Chekhov as a forerunner of Beckett's humour may not be to everyone's taste, but it certainly agreed with me. I would have found some of these characters hard to put up with for long otherwise, but felt more of a degree of empathy when human weakness and foibles had a degree of humour to them. The main character, named Laevsky, comes across as a n'er do well, a slacker civil servant who drinks and gambles away his money at cards and schemes to leave his lover Nadya, who had previously left her husband for him. The antagonist is a zoologist named Von Koren who looks on Laevsky as a waste of space that should be eliminated to allow evolution and life to proceed properly.

Laevsky starts having nervous attacks which are the signs of a complete breakdown yet to come and he hotheadedly provokes Von Koren to challenge him to a duel. Meanwhile their friends, a doctor and a deacon bemusedly look on. Nadya has her own little plots afoot as she has admirers in the seaside town than Laevsky doesn't even know about. It all resolves with pistols at dawn.
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May 2, 2020
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185 reviews472 followers
October 21, 2019

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March 24, 2020
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