Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- First Published: 1849
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: The 1840's
- Setting: A backwater village in the Shchigrovsky District of Russia
- Principal Characters: The sportsman, Vasily Vasilych, Pyotr Petrovich Lupikhin
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Tradition, Class conflict, Criticism, Landlords or tenants, Hunting or hunters, Satire, Russia or Russian people, Dinners or dining
- Locales: Russia
The Story
The first-person narrator begins this story by establishing a frank and straightforward camaraderie with his audience. A well-mannered, cultured, and polite man, the narrator informs his readers that he had, on one of his hunting trips, been invited to a dinner party that was given by one Alexander Mikhailych. The host's surname is unimportant. A minor character, he is a representative of his class: a small-minded, provincial landowner who nearly starves his guests because he must wait for the arrival of an important dignitary.
Using the party as a vehicle to...
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