“GREEN SPIT” AND “HUNTING DRAMA” BY A. P. CHEKHOV: FEATURES OF COMPOSITION AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

Abstract

The article considers the problem of narrative in early Chekhov’s prose. Two large Chekhov’s texts were selected as the material for analysis - an idyllic in tone story “Green Spit” (1882) and “a criminal novel” “Hunting Drama” (1884). The comparison of works allows concluding that, using the same techniques, Chekhov changes their role in forming the narrative structure and thus transforms the impression that the work should leave.

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• Published: June 9, 2014.

Keywords

• А. П. Чехов
• история русской литературы
• теория литературы
• повествование
• массовая литература
• A. P. Chekhov
• history of the Russian literature
• literary theory
• narrative
• mass literature

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