Long approached Chekhov for the permission to translate several of his stories into English. Chekhov included it into the Volume VIII of his Collected Works, published in 1899–1901 by Adolf Marks. The same year it was included into the Novellas and Stories (Повести и рассказы) collection. The story, divided into nine chapters and described by Chekhov as a "medical novella, historia morbi", portraying a "young man suffering from delusions of grandeur", was first published by The Artist (No 1, January 1894 issue). The story tells of the last two tragic years in the life of a fictitious scholar, Andrey Vasilyevich Kovrin. It was first published in 1894 in The Artist, one of the leading Russian magazines on theater and music in the last quarter of the 19th century. He believed in progress and happiness." The Black Monk" ( Russian: Чёрный монах, romanized: Chyorny monakh) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1893 while Chekhov was living in the village of Melikhovo. Meanwhile Hecate, the goddess of evil moons which haunt the stage, watches over all…Ī physician by training, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the most famous poets of Russian literature. A challenge to which the dissident artist responds by showing the same story from the point of view of each of the protagonists, and by multiplying perspectives and vanishing points. The director also remembers that the story is made up of many personal stories that clash and weave together into a complex ensemble: that of a truth no one can hold alone. Nothing less could shrink their field of vision so. Adapting this short story, Kirill Serebrennikov remembers that Anton Chekhov depicts characters lost in the “infernal circle” of peculiar truths. As he sits in the garden, he sees the ghost of a monk, who will haunt his stay and eventually drive him mad. Andrey Kovrin, overworked intellectual who dreams of liberty and glory, decides to retire to the country house of his old friend Pesotsky and his daughter Tanya to get some rest.
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