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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The third story that George Saunders explores in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is The Darling, by Anton Chekhov. The Darling is the kind of story that would get a male writer ‘cancelled’ today. It’s about a woman without a mind of her own. However, let’s not be hasty. This woman, who parrots the opinions of the males in her life because she doesn’t have any opinions of her own, is smart enough to be an indispensable part of two husbands’ businesses, in very different fields. When Olenka marries Kukin, who runs a theatre called The Tivoli, she presided over the box office, looked after things in the summer garden, kept accounts and paid salaries; and her rosy cheeks, the radiance of her sweet artless smile showed now in the box office window, now in the wings of the theatre, now at the buffet. When she marries the timber merchant Pustovalov, he works in the lumberyard until dinnertime, then he went out on business and was replaced by Olenka, who stayed in the office till evening, making out bills and seeing that orders were shipped. (She masters the vocabulary of lumber too: beam, log, batten, plank, box board, lath, scantling, slab.) Clearly this adaptable, versatile, hard-working woman is wasted in her third relationship, which is with a married vet. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/06/16/the-darling-by-anton-chekhov-translated-by-a... sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Olga seems to be the perfect woman: plump, pretty and friendly, and those around her consider her to be a darling girl. However, as over the years and through several spouses, Olga's true character becomes increasingly evident. "The Darling" reflects author Anton Chekhov's criticism of women, who he viewed as having no intellectual lives, and whose happiness he believed was dependent on that of their husbands. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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What happens when she has no males to work with and care for? Each time she becomes depressed. The author passes this as her simply having no opinions, but I say there's room for her to be truly depressed. She has no family beyond the men I've mentioned. Chekhov couldn't broken the theme and made the surgeon's son a daughter instead and the story for Olenka would've been the same. She's someone who needs someone to care for. The female socialites in town don't give her fulfillment. Perhaps this is part of Chekhov's point in a sense. Even if not all women need men, many need some sort of familial responsibility. This seems like women need men to men like Chekhov because men of his era and culture had a life revolving on everything outside of family, and the culture of looking down on women made family life seem diminutive to men. ( )