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Dylan Ford
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For “The Story of an Unknown Man” Chekhov does away with all the grand expansiveness of the first to stories in this collection and makes it all mostly set in just a couple apartments. This lets the grandness of the narrator rest with the narrators internal feelings, which are repressed and hidden until suddenly exploding out in a scene when he finally leaves the apartments and the snow mirrors his turmoil
— Dec 19, 2025 02:41AM
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Dylan Ford
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Just like the steppe, in the duel the location feeds so much into the story. The hot waterside town beset on all side by crumbling cliffs feeds into this claustrophobic paranoia of the characters. The Duel refers to an actual duel but also the constant verbal sparring between all characters and their moral beliefs, everyone constantly wanting to impose them on each other.
— Nov 24, 2025 07:21PM
Dylan Ford
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“The Steppe” was so good, felt like an other worldly journey in a way. The constantly rotating characters combined with the never changing seemingly dead steppe landscape reminded me of something mythical, like the odyssey or the divine comedy, as it seems to Egorushka through his child mind.
— Nov 11, 2025 05:31PM
