SLA367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Coaching Inn, Old Believers, Asceticism
19 Apr 2020
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Written by chekhov soon after his return from sakhalin. Story seems inspired by the story of some prisoner. Difference in religious beliefs creates conflict between matthew and jacob. Competes with the coaching inn owned by the terekhevs. Tavern founded by ancestor who is an old believer. Hard to get a handle on the overall shape of landscapes. Called an impressionist by several critics for this tendency. Tension between sergey and matthew and matthew and brother. Conflict leading up to murder precipitated by demand that relatives stop practicing their faith. Nikolai has worked as a waiter at a moscow hotel. Forced to go back to his home village together with his wife olga and daughter sasha because of mortal illness. Having once before left rural poverty behind, they are forced back to the degradation they tried to escape. They who provide the story with its perspective. Readers share horror at what they have returned to.
