Duel

The "Dual" of Anton Chekhov is the most scale, deep and dramatic story of the writer, in which the classical for Russian literature theme of the duel is revealed from a completely new, unexpected side. It is a brilliant study of human crises, false ideals and a difficult but possible path to internal rebirth. In the center of the story, developing in a soul, relaxed Caucasian town on the shore of the sea, is the untouchable ideological conflict of two opposite human types.Ivan Levsky is a life-tunned intellectual, weak-will egoist and debtor who fled here with a foreign wife, Nadia Federovna, but quickly stood to her and now dreams only of escape. His absolute antipod is the zoologist von Koren, a man with iron will, fanatically believing in Darwin's natural selection. von Koren sincerely disregarded Layevsky, considering him a socially dangerous parasite to be destroyed for the sake of mankind. Small domestic misunderstandings, mutual irritation and spellets disrupt this philosophical opposition to a real duel explosion. However, the rock shot, which had to be a point in their dispute, paradoxically becomes the beginning of a new life for each of the heroes. Chechov managed to get away from the usual stams: in this story there are no clearly right and guilty. Behind the external resort anthurage and thin irony is a deep example of how easy people judge each other, and how hard it is, overcoming their own weaknesses, to throw out selfishness to learn to simply live and love those around. Who to read: Lovers of strong psychological prose, smart philosophical discussions, and those who want to see how the Czech virtuosely deconstruct the famous noble ritual of the battle, turning it into a duel with himself.