The District Doctor (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- First Published: 1848
- Type of Plot: Vignette
- Time of Work: The 1840's
- Setting: Rural Russia
- Principal Characters: Trifon Ivanych, Alexandra Andreyevna
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, Doctors, Storytelling, Sisters, Death or dying, Sick persons, Sports, Patients
- Locales: Russia
The Story
Here, as in all the stories in Zapiski okhotnika (1852; A Sportsman's Sketches, 1855), Ivan Turgenev (or his transparently disguised alter ego, the gentleman sportsman on a hunting trip) encounters the protagonist, the “district doctor,” in a natural, casual fashion. The weather is bad, the sportsman falls ill, and his only choice of a doctor turns out to be a modest local man, Trifon Ivanych. Grateful for any distraction, the patient listens to the doctor unburden himself of a haunting incident. Turgenev subtly persuades the reader to identify with...
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