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Neighbours
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. He is one of the greatest short story writers of all time. We present to you here one of his best short stories.
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Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
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July 30, 2020
2.5★
“By now it seemed to him that the problem was incapable of solution. He could not accept the accomplished fact, and he could not refuse to accept it, and there was no intermediate course.”
Pyotr’s sister has run away with a married neighbour. Oh dear! Mother won’t mention her name, so what is a loyal son and brother to do?
“His aunt, the servants, and even the peasants, so it seemed to Pyotr Mihalitch, looked at him enigmatically and with perplexity, as though they wanted to say “Your sister has been seduced; why are you doing nothing?”
Poor Pyotr has to do something, doesn’t he? How he decides to confront the issue is the subject of this slow story. I did enjoy the sly digs at his ‘education’.
“He had in his day taken his degree at the university, but he now looked upon his studies as though in them he had discharged a duty incumbent upon young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five; at any rate, the ideas which now strayed every day through his mind had nothing in common with the university or the subjects he had studied there.”
Sounds like the kind of complaint many students say about school – what good will it ever do me? (You know, when will I ever need algebra?)
I read this for a Reading for Pleasure short story group read. They usually have some great stories, and I heartily recommend their discussion thread!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
“By now it seemed to him that the problem was incapable of solution. He could not accept the accomplished fact, and he could not refuse to accept it, and there was no intermediate course.”
Pyotr’s sister has run away with a married neighbour. Oh dear! Mother won’t mention her name, so what is a loyal son and brother to do?
“His aunt, the servants, and even the peasants, so it seemed to Pyotr Mihalitch, looked at him enigmatically and with perplexity, as though they wanted to say “Your sister has been seduced; why are you doing nothing?”
Poor Pyotr has to do something, doesn’t he? How he decides to confront the issue is the subject of this slow story. I did enjoy the sly digs at his ‘education’.
“He had in his day taken his degree at the university, but he now looked upon his studies as though in them he had discharged a duty incumbent upon young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five; at any rate, the ideas which now strayed every day through his mind had nothing in common with the university or the subjects he had studied there.”
Sounds like the kind of complaint many students say about school – what good will it ever do me? (You know, when will I ever need algebra?)
I read this for a Reading for Pleasure short story group read. They usually have some great stories, and I heartily recommend their discussion thread!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
July 29, 2020
There are positive and negative things connected with adhering to traditional values. The story asks whether we have the right to tell someone else how to live their life because other people are disapproving.
December 1, 2017
Good writing. Boring story.
July 28, 2020
Not one of Chekhov's best, IMO. A bit of family dynamics, uncertainty about where one stands, and a youth's failure to stand up to what he sees as his responsibility.
January 30, 2025
I was hoping it would go somewhere. Good writing, thoughtful, but without a satisfying resolution. It felt like a missed opportunity.
December 6, 2025
Neighbors and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
10 out of 10
Neighbors
You can read this, other sublime short stories of Anton Chekhov and great magnum opera online http://www.online-literature.com/anto... – provided it is more than seventy years old, like the masterpieces of Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Honore de Balzac, Jane Austen, to name just a few legendary authors, literature is available for free on the internet, quite often you can choose between an eBook and an audiobook format, for the latter there are volunteers that read chefs d’oeuvre
‘PYOTR MIHALITCH IVASHIN was very much out of humor: his sister, a young girl, had gone away to live with Vlassitch, a married man’…this is the first line in the story and it summarizes perfectly the plot, in which the said Pyotr Mihalitch will agonize over what to do in such an issue of paramount importance, given that in the nineteenth – and in too many countries in the twenty first – century the fact that the sister had ‘run’ away was a calamity, bringing upon herself and the family and intolerable shame…there is a thing called ‘honor killing’ in many Muslim – and other – lands, which require brothers and the male side of the family in general to ‘punish’ females that had done much less than run to live with a married man – there are a number of inept, absolute rules that they have to follow, or else face death, and we are talking the ‘civilized present’, not some distant ancient ritual in the tribes of the wild…
The brother is not the only one appalled, his mother has not left her room the whole day and an aunt has had her trunks brought down to leave, a few times…indeed, the brother and sister would discuss the problem later and will not seem to find a solution, they would not figure how to bring the parent to see things differently…when a letter comes from Zina, the runaway woman, the mother is so proud and infuriated that though she wants to learn the news and read the message, she refuses and they do not speak of their close relative by mentioning her name, they just use evasive…a letter has come…
Eventually, the brother decides he has to go to see his sister and the man she had selected as her partner – on the way, the police captain is met and he had wanted to come and visit, but he is told that the mother is not well and Zina is gone, but when asked, the brother would not explain the details of the departure of his sister and can only wonder at what the police captain will think, when he finds the embarrassing truth
On the way, Pyotr Mihalitch is very upset and anticipates with intense displeasure the encounter and how Vlassitch, his sister’s lover, would behave, knowing his general attitude, the guilty man will show shame, embarrassment, but the brother will still need to horsewhip him and take a stand, show that what had happened was deeply wrong and things have to put straight…however, the situation will change and the furious relative will see that he does not even know what he thinks anymore in what is a splendid analysis of human behavior, which is most often confused, caught between different demands, emotions, expectations and rules.
Pyotr Mihalitch is further infuriated by the knowledge he has of the sorry state of affairs on the property of Vlassitch, who owes a lot of money, has to borrow all the time and humble himself in front of people when asking for this favor, he has to pay huge interests on the money he had already taken and when he has some resources, he is not just profligate, he has no sense of business, asking for too little for a hay stack and various produce which he has on his land and gives away at absurd prices…furthermore, he is a liberal and one that is boring, he has very little to make him desirable, he is not young, unremarkable and it is strange to see the smart, brave, determined, well-read Zina taken by such a figure.
Indeed, when they discuss, Vlassitch is very grateful for the visit, he is aware of the situation, though he has little idea of how to find a way out, he will even admit to the fact that Zina is not happy, thinking as she has been of her mother, brother and quite difficult position she is in, but he is explaining the state of affairs and even tells a few stories within the story, starting with the case of his wife and how they got married…the woman had been abandoned by an officer, other young men in the regiment and Vlassitch took a stand against the man who had behaved so badly, but our narrator went further than anybody could have anticipated and went on to propose to the wronged woman.
The results have been that he has been rejected by the regiment and his comrades, the woman would respect the one that had abused and humiliated her, but not the knight in shining or without armor who has been foolish enough to take her from the gutter and she would slowly depart from him, asking a huge sum to be paid to her and making life miserable for the rather idealistic, but also emotionally vulnerable Vlassitch, who also tells the story of a Frenchman, Olivier, who had rented in the forties the place…he was a terribly infatuated man, who asked that the priest takes his hat off half a mile from his residence, the village tall the bells whenever the Olivier family passed through and he was even more brutal to common people.
A passing student found refuge at the mansion, but one night, he was taken to the very room where Vlassitch, Zina and Pyotr Mihalitch are now talking about the horror of the past and he was flogged and beaten until he died…there is speculation over what had been the cause, maybe the student riled up the peasants against the vile Frenchman, another version has it that the daughter of Olivier had been infatuated with the student, but Vlassitch says that it had been for both reasons, the student must have been both an agitator and a lover to find his death at the hands of servants prompted by their master…the latter had paid some thousands of rubles to be allowed to return to Alsace…
To end with, let me just write a few words about a short story about the bookshop, wherein a young man opens a store to sell books, having high expectations – probably an ancestor of Jeff Bezos – thinking that he will be immersed in high culture, only to find that in the real world, customers want crayons, puppets and thus he ends up like the richest man in the world today – bypassed by Elon musk for a while – selling all sorts of things… in the case of this early Bezos, he ends up selling the books and ending that side of the business.
10 out of 10
Neighbors
You can read this, other sublime short stories of Anton Chekhov and great magnum opera online http://www.online-literature.com/anto... – provided it is more than seventy years old, like the masterpieces of Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Honore de Balzac, Jane Austen, to name just a few legendary authors, literature is available for free on the internet, quite often you can choose between an eBook and an audiobook format, for the latter there are volunteers that read chefs d’oeuvre
‘PYOTR MIHALITCH IVASHIN was very much out of humor: his sister, a young girl, had gone away to live with Vlassitch, a married man’…this is the first line in the story and it summarizes perfectly the plot, in which the said Pyotr Mihalitch will agonize over what to do in such an issue of paramount importance, given that in the nineteenth – and in too many countries in the twenty first – century the fact that the sister had ‘run’ away was a calamity, bringing upon herself and the family and intolerable shame…there is a thing called ‘honor killing’ in many Muslim – and other – lands, which require brothers and the male side of the family in general to ‘punish’ females that had done much less than run to live with a married man – there are a number of inept, absolute rules that they have to follow, or else face death, and we are talking the ‘civilized present’, not some distant ancient ritual in the tribes of the wild…
The brother is not the only one appalled, his mother has not left her room the whole day and an aunt has had her trunks brought down to leave, a few times…indeed, the brother and sister would discuss the problem later and will not seem to find a solution, they would not figure how to bring the parent to see things differently…when a letter comes from Zina, the runaway woman, the mother is so proud and infuriated that though she wants to learn the news and read the message, she refuses and they do not speak of their close relative by mentioning her name, they just use evasive…a letter has come…
Eventually, the brother decides he has to go to see his sister and the man she had selected as her partner – on the way, the police captain is met and he had wanted to come and visit, but he is told that the mother is not well and Zina is gone, but when asked, the brother would not explain the details of the departure of his sister and can only wonder at what the police captain will think, when he finds the embarrassing truth
On the way, Pyotr Mihalitch is very upset and anticipates with intense displeasure the encounter and how Vlassitch, his sister’s lover, would behave, knowing his general attitude, the guilty man will show shame, embarrassment, but the brother will still need to horsewhip him and take a stand, show that what had happened was deeply wrong and things have to put straight…however, the situation will change and the furious relative will see that he does not even know what he thinks anymore in what is a splendid analysis of human behavior, which is most often confused, caught between different demands, emotions, expectations and rules.
Pyotr Mihalitch is further infuriated by the knowledge he has of the sorry state of affairs on the property of Vlassitch, who owes a lot of money, has to borrow all the time and humble himself in front of people when asking for this favor, he has to pay huge interests on the money he had already taken and when he has some resources, he is not just profligate, he has no sense of business, asking for too little for a hay stack and various produce which he has on his land and gives away at absurd prices…furthermore, he is a liberal and one that is boring, he has very little to make him desirable, he is not young, unremarkable and it is strange to see the smart, brave, determined, well-read Zina taken by such a figure.
Indeed, when they discuss, Vlassitch is very grateful for the visit, he is aware of the situation, though he has little idea of how to find a way out, he will even admit to the fact that Zina is not happy, thinking as she has been of her mother, brother and quite difficult position she is in, but he is explaining the state of affairs and even tells a few stories within the story, starting with the case of his wife and how they got married…the woman had been abandoned by an officer, other young men in the regiment and Vlassitch took a stand against the man who had behaved so badly, but our narrator went further than anybody could have anticipated and went on to propose to the wronged woman.
The results have been that he has been rejected by the regiment and his comrades, the woman would respect the one that had abused and humiliated her, but not the knight in shining or without armor who has been foolish enough to take her from the gutter and she would slowly depart from him, asking a huge sum to be paid to her and making life miserable for the rather idealistic, but also emotionally vulnerable Vlassitch, who also tells the story of a Frenchman, Olivier, who had rented in the forties the place…he was a terribly infatuated man, who asked that the priest takes his hat off half a mile from his residence, the village tall the bells whenever the Olivier family passed through and he was even more brutal to common people.
A passing student found refuge at the mansion, but one night, he was taken to the very room where Vlassitch, Zina and Pyotr Mihalitch are now talking about the horror of the past and he was flogged and beaten until he died…there is speculation over what had been the cause, maybe the student riled up the peasants against the vile Frenchman, another version has it that the daughter of Olivier had been infatuated with the student, but Vlassitch says that it had been for both reasons, the student must have been both an agitator and a lover to find his death at the hands of servants prompted by their master…the latter had paid some thousands of rubles to be allowed to return to Alsace…
To end with, let me just write a few words about a short story about the bookshop, wherein a young man opens a store to sell books, having high expectations – probably an ancestor of Jeff Bezos – thinking that he will be immersed in high culture, only to find that in the real world, customers want crayons, puppets and thus he ends up like the richest man in the world today – bypassed by Elon musk for a while – selling all sorts of things… in the case of this early Bezos, he ends up selling the books and ending that side of the business.
November 19, 2024
Meh.
It was ok, but not worth reviewing.
For the moment at least.
It’s public domain. You can find it HERE.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1880] [15p] [Fiction] [Not Recommendable]
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★★★☆☆ Ward No. 6 [3.5]
★★★☆☆ Narraciones <--
★★☆☆☆ Stephen Fry Presents A Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
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Meh.
Estuvo ok, pero no vale la pena reseñarlo.
Al menos por ahora.
Es dominio público, lo pueden encontrar ACA.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1880] [15p] [Ficción] [No Recomendable]
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It was ok, but not worth reviewing.
For the moment at least.
It’s public domain. You can find it HERE.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1880] [15p] [Fiction] [Not Recommendable]
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★★★☆☆ Ward No. 6 [3.5]
★★★☆☆ Narraciones <--
★★☆☆☆ Stephen Fry Presents A Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
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Meh.
Estuvo ok, pero no vale la pena reseñarlo.
Al menos por ahora.
Es dominio público, lo pueden encontrar ACA.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1880] [15p] [Ficción] [No Recomendable]
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April 21, 2020
A melancholy story about hopes and dreams that slipped away from a local aristocrat.
October 4, 2019
Cuento distinto a lo que hoy en día consideramos habitual. Sin entrar en más detalles es curioso cómo a través de esta breve narración podemos observar como las vidas de tres o cuatro personajes son tan distintas y como cada uno tiene una filosofía, un carácter y unos pensamientos, tan distintos entre sí.
August 14, 2023
Too simple. There are underlying themes about family dynamics, perhaps, but these aren't well explored in stories, at least not in this one.
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Demasiado simple, hay temas subyacentes sobre la dinámica familiar, tal vez, pero estos no son bien explorados en los cuentos, al menos no en este.
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Demasiado simple, hay temas subyacentes sobre la dinámica familiar, tal vez, pero estos no son bien explorados en los cuentos, al menos no en este.
October 23, 2018
I have arranged my takeaway thoughts on this story into a haiku:
"Mild mannered wimps
Will always feel toothless near
Fools who speak their mind."
"Mild mannered wimps
Will always feel toothless near
Fools who speak their mind."
April 26, 2021
It was meant to be a longer story, but apparently Chekhov couldn't finish it because his publisher pressured him to finish it earlier. He decided to change the beginning and cut off the rest of the story, and that's why it feels "unfinished" (at least to me).
There's not much to say about the plot itself. It is about a brother who loves his sister and wishes the best for her, but at the same time he is too scared to openly express his concerns over her choices. His sister is a "liberal" woman who decides to live with his married friend and neighbor, a loser who desperately wants to be the knight in shining armor, but constantly fails because he acts on impulse without a second thought. He hopes that she will return and everything will return to normal, but after visiting his friend and sister, he realizes that nothing will ever be the same again. He lacks the courage to protest, and he wonders whether he has the right to protest to begin with - it's her choice, after all - and as a result unwillingly decides to support them.
This story had a great potential and originality, but the story was never unfolded and the author is dead. We will never know how this story ends, but nevertheless it was a nice read.
There's not much to say about the plot itself. It is about a brother who loves his sister and wishes the best for her, but at the same time he is too scared to openly express his concerns over her choices. His sister is a "liberal" woman who decides to live with his married friend and neighbor, a loser who desperately wants to be the knight in shining armor, but constantly fails because he acts on impulse without a second thought. He hopes that she will return and everything will return to normal, but after visiting his friend and sister, he realizes that nothing will ever be the same again. He lacks the courage to protest, and he wonders whether he has the right to protest to begin with - it's her choice, after all - and as a result unwillingly decides to support them.
This story had a great potential and originality, but the story was never unfolded and the author is dead. We will never know how this story ends, but nevertheless it was a nice read.
December 2, 2025
Couldn’t wrap my head around this one. The character motivation and events were not as cohesive as the other Chekhov ones so far. Narration by Armitage is great as always. [AUDIBLE]
この話はそんなに理解できなかった。その何起こる物なかった
In the collection THE CHEKHOV COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, narrated by Richard Armitage.
この話はそんなに理解できなかった。その何起こる物なかった
In the collection THE CHEKHOV COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, narrated by Richard Armitage.
April 10, 2025
The short story of Ivan and his wife as they deal with the arrival of a new neighbor, Pyotr.
Initially indifferent, Ivan soon becomes envious of Pyotr's success.
The tension between Ivan and Pyotr felt incredibly relatable, showing how envy can affect even the smallest interactions.
Initially indifferent, Ivan soon becomes envious of Pyotr's success.
The tension between Ivan and Pyotr felt incredibly relatable, showing how envy can affect even the smallest interactions.
November 6, 2025
Chekhov’s stories are often slightly dull until the ending when there is some wisdom expelled which makes you think about the first 80% of the book again. This was in that category yet didn’t really do it for me.
March 28, 2023
What's written is brilliant... Unfortunately never finished. Not the greatest of Chekhov
November 25, 2023
A woman throws her family into disgrace by living with a married man. The brother goes to confront him but the story really never gets going.
November 30, 2024
Zzzz
Would go hard as irl village gossip tho
Would go hard as irl village gossip tho
March 26, 2025
Very good time capsule to the late 1800s.
Pjotr sets out to solve a problem completely alien to the world of today: His sister falling in love and being happy with the neighbor, which leaves the rest of the family saddened and in despair.
Was Chekhov criticizing the sister for this "shameful" situation she put herself and her family in? Or is he criticizing the societal standards of the time?
(Its honestly unclear to me)
3/5
Pjotr sets out to solve a problem completely alien to the world of today: His sister falling in love and being happy with the neighbor, which leaves the rest of the family saddened and in despair.
Was Chekhov criticizing the sister for this "shameful" situation she put herself and her family in? Or is he criticizing the societal standards of the time?
(Its honestly unclear to me)
3/5
April 23, 2011
I think that the main character was so unhappy with his life. He is incoherent
June 26, 2021
Chekhov was no Dostoyevsky.
March 10, 2024
3.5 stars
August 9, 2024
Sometimes you focus on the journey.
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