SOURCE: “Allusion and Dialogue in ‘The Duel,’” inReading Chekhov's Text, edited by Robert Louis Jackson, Northwestern University Press, 1993, pp. 169–78.
In the following essay, Durkin investigates allusions to the writing of N. S. Laskov in “The Duel,” and examines the opposition between science and the humanities in the story.
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