The Looking Glass and Other Stories
New Translation of this unique edition of thirty-four other short stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English.
Seiten
2023
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-901-1 (ISBN)
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-901-1 (ISBN)
Presented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, The Looking Glass is accompanied in this volume by other stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English.
It is New Year’s Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves into a sea of grey mist, in which she starts to discern the beloved features of her fiancé. As in a diorama, the scene keeps changing, and to the early snapshots of joyful marital life succeed other, more sinister images of care, sickness and bereavement, casting a long shadow onto the girl’s future.
With ‘The Looking Glass’ Chekhov captured the very essence of the Russian soul. This short story, along with the others included in this collection, demonstrates why he is considered the absolute master of the genre.
It is New Year’s Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves into a sea of grey mist, in which she starts to discern the beloved features of her fiancé. As in a diorama, the scene keeps changing, and to the early snapshots of joyful marital life succeed other, more sinister images of care, sickness and bereavement, casting a long shadow onto the girl’s future.
With ‘The Looking Glass’ Chekhov captured the very essence of the Russian soul. This short story, along with the others included in this collection, demonstrates why he is considered the absolute master of the genre.
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) 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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Stephen Pimenoff |
| Verlagsort | Richmond |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84749-901-5 / 1847499015 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84749-901-1 / 9781847499011 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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