Dec 23, 2009
“The Man in a Case” chronicles the story of a narrow-minded schoolteacher named Belikov. Narrated by Burkin, a fellow teacher, to his friend Ivan Ivanych Chimsha-Himalaisky, after a long day spent hunting in the countryside, this tale provides a sobering view of pettiness and paranoia in a provincial Russian milieu. In Burkin's description, Belikov—a teacher of Greek—emerges as a highly insecure individual obsessed with following official rules and fearful of any suspicion of permissiveness in his environment. From the very way he dresses (in a pair of...
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