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In Anton Chekhov's The Duel, escalat- ing animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.
Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man's wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemp- tuous of Laevsky; as a fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation between the two becomes in- creasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duel is the full- est and one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov's narrative art.
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The Duel
2010, Vintage Classics
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2003, The Modern Library
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The Duel (Russian: Дуэль, romanized: Duél') is a novella by Anton Chekhov originally published in 1891.
"The Duel" was first serialized in Aleksey Suvorin's newspaper Novoye Vremya from October–November 1891, after which Suvorin edited the novella and published it as a separate edition. The book enjoyed nine re-issues during the 1890s. Chekhov included "The Duel" in Volume 6 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901.
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