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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a wonderful short novel,
This review is from: My Life (The Art of the Novella series) (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov, justly celebrated for his plays and short stories, also wrote this poignant prose narrative, subtitled The Story of a Provincial. A non-conformist young aristocrat who wants to live through manual labor, inadvertently shocks, puzzles, angers, amuses, or fascinates his fellow townspeople. His authoritarian father is furious, his shy sister is (initially) dismayed, a young woman who likes him grows aloof, another young woman becomes infatuated. Written in 1896, this short novel is a marvelous depiction of the narrowmindedness, cruelty, emptyheadedness, and misery - physical or emotional - that stunted the lives of much of Russia's population of the time. Professionals, merchants, artisans, and peasants (some of them quite sympathetic) are delineated succinctly and vividly, and as the deceptively simple story unfolds, it generates a powerful atmosphere of haunting, compassionate sadness. The answer to a question the narrative implicitly raises - Must life be like this, or can it be better? - is wisely left up to the reader.
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My Life (The Art of the Novella series) by Constance Garnett (Paperback - May 1, 2004)
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