The Complete Short Novels
Introduction by Richard Pevear
- Editore:
EVERYMANS LIB
- Collana:
- Everyman's Library Classics
- Traduttore:
- Pevear Richard, Volokhonsky Larissa
- EAN:
9781400040490
- ISBN:
1400040493
- Pagine:
- 600
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Complete Short Novels
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures-a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility-on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov's work.