by Antón Chéjov · Ediciones Invisibles · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412227987
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«Relato de un desconocido» is the short novel by Anton Chekhov, published by Ediciones Invisibles in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
A consumptive young man devoted to subversive ideals infiltrates the household of Orlov, a cultured and amoral tsarist bureaucrat, as a footman. Amid absurd work, card games, and clandestine meetings with the dreamy Zinaída, Chekhov satirizes the bureaucracy and emptiness of the Russian Empire's elite.
Translated from the Russian by Joaquín Fernández-Valdés. Eleventh title in the Pequeños Placeres collection. The original novel dates from 1893.
For readers of Russian classics and socially critical narrative, with a look at tsarist Russia and its bureaucracy.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
