My Life: The Story of a Provincial

About this film

LibriVox recording of My Life: The Story of a Provincial by Anton Chekhov. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by Expatriate A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a reputation as a lazy good-for-nothing. In reality, he is intensely sensitive to the injustices perpetrated by his social class upon the working classes of town and country, and resolves to become a common laborer, taking employment as a house painter and ikon gilder. All classes of society around him respond to this revolutionary action with bewilderment and ridicule, even the lowest workmen feeling threatened by this insolent shaking of the cosmic structure. Possibly Chekhov's most passionate outcry against the corruption and hypocrisy of every class of conventional society, "My Life" resonates with an Ibsenesque outrage and frustration of powerful relevance to twenty-first century life. ( Summary by Expatriate) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more…

Directors & creators

Anton Chekhov

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;marriage; Russian Literature; anton chekhov

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