Gusev (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- First Published: 1890
- Type of Plot: Character study
- Time of Work: 1890
- Setting: A ship at sea
- Principal Characters: Pavel Ivanych, Gusev
- Genres: Short fiction, Character study, Sketch
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Intellectuals, Criticism, Death or dying, Ships, Sick persons, Military life or service, Life, philosophy of, Tuberculosis, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: Oceans
The Story
Anton Chekhov's brief tale traces the thoughts and interactions of two sick men being transported in a ship infirmary from the Far East back to their native Russia. The first, an intellectual named Pavel Ivanych, delivers several angry speeches in which he criticizes injustice in Russian society. The second, a peasant soldier on an indefinite leave resulting from a severe case of consumption, listens only intermittently to Pavel Ivanych, preferring to think of life in his native village.
With these two characters, Chekhov presents two differing approaches to...
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