The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Classics, Literary
Cover of the book The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Anton Chekhov, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Anton Chekhov ISBN: 9780307742964
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 10, 2010
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9780307742964
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 10, 2010
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing 

In Anton Chekhov’s The Duelthe escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man’s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous of Laevsky; as a fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation between the two becomes increasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the award-winnning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duelis one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov’s narrative art.

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Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing 

In Anton Chekhov’s The Duelthe escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man’s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous of Laevsky; as a fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation between the two becomes increasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the award-winnning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duelis one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov’s narrative art.

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