The Duel

NOTES

Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature. Edited and with an introduction by Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1981.

Ibid., 247.

As Nabokov suggests, “Chekhov’s qualities as a playwright are merely his qualities as a writer of long short stories” (Ibid., 252).

Ibid., 254.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid., 252.

“Chekhov was the first among the writers to rely so much upon the undercurrents of suggestion to convey a definite meaning” (Ibid).

Ibid.