by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · Hesperus Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843910039
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«The Story of a Nobody» is Anton Chekhov's short novel, published by Hesperus Press in paperback (100 pages, in English).
In the St Petersburg of comfortable bureaucrats, a member of a clandestine organisation is tasked with spying on Orlov, a wealthy official. Once installed in his house, he contemplates the opulence and emptiness of that world, and ends up questioning his own mission. His decision to follow his convictions leads him towards a tragic outcome.
2002 edition in the Hesperus Classics series, with a translation by Hugh Aplin and an introduction by Louis de Bernières. Original title: «Рассказ неизвестного человека».
For readers interested in nineteenth-century Russian literature and Chekhov's short fiction.
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."
