The Duel (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- First Published: 1891
- Type of Work: Short story
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1880’s
- Setting: The Caucasus
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Values, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Roads, streets, or highways, Emotions, Violence, Fear, Adultery, Death or dying, Separation, Russia or Russian people, Debtors or creditors, Trucking or truck drivers
- Locales: Caucasus
Characters Discussed
Ivan Andreitch (Vanya) Laevsky (ahn- DREH-ihch LAH-ehv-skee), a minor official of the czarist government. This slender, neurotic, twenty-eight-year- old intellectual already considers himself a failure. He is living in the Caucasus with another man’s wife and, after two years of this scandalous conduct, finds that he has grown tired of her and is going mad in this backwater community. He desperately wishes to abandon his mistress and flee to St. Petersburg, where the social and intellectual life is more compatible with his temperament. He realizes,...
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