The Black Monk and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov, R.E.C. Long (Translator)

Overview

This is a story about psychological and spiritual health, about true happiness, about loneliness and about genius. The main character finds complete spiritual harmony and happiness only in a state of mental illness, when he sees hallucinations in the form of a mysterious Black Monk, with whom you can talk for hours about the eternal, true, truly valuable. This is definitely one of the best works of Anton Pavlovich on the topic of madness and, at the same time, quite a calm, emotional and touching story about the life of one „simple” genius.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788381764704
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	04/26/2019
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	215
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	6 Years

About the Author

Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1884. Chekhov died of tuberculosis in Germany on July 14, 1904, shortly after his marriage to actress Olga Knipper, and was buried in Moscow.

Editorial Reviews

Chekhov can characterize with a single well-selected detail. He sums up relationships among a group of people, or the beliefs held by an entire country, by finding those key objects that crystallize his characters’ strongest emotions. These four stories dramatize an array of obsessions that are at once purely Russian and deeply universal. Ralph Cosham’s voice is so clear and unaccented as he reads these tales that he is a bit surprising; the complex Russian names stand out, jolting the listeners. But that’s the only shock here, as Cosham fits his delivery to Chekhov’s style, surging to pile description on description, then pausing, to give entire scenes a unified feel and pace. A superior recording. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

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