Errand (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Carver
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: July, 1904
- Setting: Badenweiler, Germany
- Principal Characters: Anton Chekhov, Olga Knipper, Dr. Schwörer
- Genres: Short fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Death or dying, Publishing or publishers, Medicine, Germany or German people, Tuberculosis, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants, Wine or wine making
- Locales: Badenweiler, Germany
The Story
In 1897, Anton Chekhov is dining with a wealthy publisher named Suvorin, at an elegant restaurant in Moscow. The two share an awareness of their peasant origins, although Suvorin's politics are reactionary and Chekhov's are quite the opposite. During the dinner, Chekhov experiences his first hemorrhage; the blood gushing from his mouth indicates that he has tuberculosis. Even while he is recuperating in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, however, Chekhov denies that anything serious is wrong with him. (Raymond Carver quotes from the memoirs of Chekhov's younger...
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