The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition); Random House, 2010

In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating

animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out

against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run

off with another man’s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds

himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous of Laevsky; as a

fanatical devotee of Darwin, von Koren believes the other man to be unworthy of

survival and is further enraged by his treatment of Nadya. As the confrontation

between the two becomes increasingly heated, it leads to a duel that is as

comically inadvertent as it is inevitable. Masterfully translated by the

award-winnning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Duel is

one of the most subtle examples of Chekhov’s narrative art.

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