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Chargement... The Story of a Nobody (1893)par Anton Chekhov
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I admire Chekov for his humanity...he lived to share his talents with others. In this story, though he is an educated man, the main character becomes the servant of a man of the upper class in St Petersburg whose father is his political enemy. Because he speaks French, he is privy to what goes on between his master, Orlov, and the woman who is his mistress. He writes of Orlov's shameful treatment of her "Cold, crude jokes, braying laughter...does all this not seem like a desire at any cost to bend women so low towards the dirt that they and your attitude to them are on the same level?..." ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy. Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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