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...perhaps I was not living as I ought.
Renowned as the greatest short story writer ever, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella, and perhaps his most overlooked is this gem, My Life—the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself confronted by the morally and mentally deadening effects of provincialism.
The 1896 tale is partly a commentary on Tolstoyan philosophy, and partly an autobiographical reflection on Chekhov's own small-town background. But it is, more importantly, Chekhov in his prime, displaying all his famous strengths—vivid characters, restrained but telling details, and brilliant psychological observation—and one of his most stirring themes: the youthful struggle to maintain idealism against growing isolation.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
Renowned as the greatest short story writer ever, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella, and perhaps his most overlooked is this gem, My Life—the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself confronted by the morally and mentally deadening effects of provincialism.
The 1896 tale is partly a commentary on Tolstoyan philosophy, and partly an autobiographical reflection on Chekhov's own small-town background. But it is, more importantly, Chekhov in his prime, displaying all his famous strengths—vivid characters, restrained but telling details, and brilliant psychological observation—and one of his most stirring themes: the youthful struggle to maintain idealism against growing isolation.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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a wonderful short novel
30 Nov 2010
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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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