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In 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe. On his return, he began the novella-length short story, which he called "something rather odd and much too original," and which was eventually published in Severny Vestnik (The Northern Herald).
17 de out. de 2022 · Michael Finke has called The Steppe a "dictionary of Chekhov's poetics", suggesting that it represented a significant advance for Chekhov, exhibiting much of the quality of his mature fiction and winning him publication in a literary journal rather than a newspaper. The novella was made into a Mosfilm movie in 1978, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.
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The Russian Steppe is one of the main characters in the story and we can feel it breathing, feeling happy and sad and angry and indifferent to the humans who travel through it. Chekhov’s prose glows in those parts in which he writes about the steppe and makes it come alive for us. Those were some of my favourite parts of the story.
The classic novel The Tartar Steppe was first published in 1938, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. It tells the story of Giovanni Drogo’s excruciatingly boring life on an isolated fort in the middle of nowhere. In this book Giovanni arrives full of hope that he’s starting a promising career in the Italian army, but he in ...
