Chekhov Becomes Chekhov by Bob Blaisdell

Author:Bob Blaisdell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2022-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Chekhov was a do-gooder. He believed that we help others through generous acts and sympathy rather than through well-meaning advice and admonitions. “The Beggar” (“Nishchiy,” January 19) is a good and probably familiar story to most Chekhov readers: A drunken beggar is apparently reformed by taking on odd jobs that a lawyer has offered him. Although Chekhov had been on a kind of campaign against lying in 1886, he makes us think twice about its absolute prohibition when the lawyer, having detected the lies in the educated beggar’s sob-story, says, “You are poor and hungry, but that does not give you the right to lie so shamelessly!”31

But doesn’t it actually give him the right? The lawyer’s sense of justice is too harsh for Chekhov:

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