The Story of a Nobody

Anton Chekhov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2012
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-278-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day.

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A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.

Autor

Anton Chekhov is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2012
• Übersetzer: Hugh Aplin
• Zusatzinfo: black & white illustrations, maps
• Verlagsort: Richmond
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 127 x 196 mm
• Gewicht: 136 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• ISBN-10: 1-84749-278-9 / 1847492789
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84749-278-4 / 9781847492784
• Zustand: Neuware