SOURCE: “The Epic Vision: Nature and the World,” in Chekhov: A Structuralist Study, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1980, pp. 114–31.
In the following excerpt, Tulloch interprets “The Duel” in light of evolutionary degeneration theory, and views the conflict between an “ambivalence of false choice” and the story's “epic vision of hope and suffering.”
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