The Student (short story)
Story by Anton Chekhov / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The Student" (Russian: "Студент", romanized: Student) is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published on April 16, 1894, in the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti. It tells of a clerical student returning home on a cold Good Friday evening who stops at a fire and meets two widows. He recounts to them the canonical Gospels' story of the Denial of Peter and upon finishing, notes that these two women are deeply moved, leading him to conclude that all of history is connected through truth and beauty.
"The Student" | |
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Short story by Anton Chekhov | |
Original title | Студент |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Genre(s) | Short story |
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Published in | Russkie Vedomosti |
Publication date | April 16, 1894 (1894-04-16)[lower-alpha 1] |
Published in English | 1918 |
At four pages, "The Student" is one of Chekhov's shortest stories and was the one he identified as his favorite among his own works. Critics have disagreed about whether the protagonist's point of view at the end of the story coincides with Chekhov's perspective. Other critical interpretation has focused on the symmetrical structure of "The Student" as well as the significance of the language used both to tell the story of the Denial of Peter and to tell the story as a whole. "The Student" has been praised by critics for its compactness and delicacy.