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Anton Chekhov's The Duel Photos View All Photos (29) Movie Info. Laevsky runs away with his married mistress Nadya and suffers a mental breakdown. Genre: Drama 81%. In ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast.  · Download The Duel Study Guide. Finally, theme and technique merge in a clear didactic statement that is not characteristic of Chekhov. Because no one can know the heart of .

Complete summary of Anton Chekhov's The Duel. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Duel. I enjoyed all of Chekhov's stories in this book but his short story The Duel is the best. Set in the seaside town of Caucasus (interestingly, as I write this, in , one is highly discouraged by the U.S. government from visiting this area, which is a shame, because it is, from Chekhov's description, quite beautiful), it is centered on a small group of people but primarily on Ivan Layevsky, a. The Duel. Anton Chekhov ( - ) Translated by Constance Garnett ( - ). The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life.

The Duel. (Chekhov novel) The Duel (Russian: Дуэль, romanized: Duél') is a novella by Anton Chekhov originally published in ; it was adapted for the screen by Iosif Kheifits in (as The Bad Good Man, starring Vladimir Vysotsky) and by Dover Kosashvili in (as The Duel). Anton Chekhov's The Duel Photos View All Photos (29) Movie Info. Laevsky runs away with his married mistress Nadya and suffers a mental breakdown. Genre: Drama. From the Inside Flap. First published in , this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his dependent mistress, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Von Koren, the scientist, delivers a scathing critique of Loevsky s egotism, forcing the young man to examine his soul.