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Resumen de La partida de caza
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For readers who love a crime story with a human face, a lively country setting, and a narrator who is clever, funny and never quite what he seems.
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A parrot screeches that a husband has killed his wife, and nobody listens. Anton Chekhov's novel The Shooting Party begins with a handsome stranger who brings a manuscript to a newspaper editor. The manuscript tells of drink, desire and a murder on a Russian country estate. You meet a bored magistrate, an idle Count and a girl in a red dress. And you meet an editor who cannot stop reading. Start with the stranger himself.
En este resumen
- 1A stranger leaves a manuscript on the deskFree
- 2A lonely magistrate and his talking parrot
- 3The Count's estate is a house of rot
- 4The girl in red enters the story
- 5Two wild nights and a blow he cannot remember
- 6Pride and a girl he has hurt
- 7Olenka marries the bailiff
- 8A marriage unravels toward the shooting party
- 9What the book is about, and how it is told
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A stranger leaves a manuscript on the desk
The book opens in an editor's office in April 1880. A doorkeeper named Andrey announces a tall, broad-shouldered gentleman with a cockade on his cap. He is Ivan Petrovich Kamyshev, a former examining magistrate, and he wants to be published.
He is over forty, rosy, strong as a cart horse, and yet he moves as lightly as if he handled butterflies. His blue eyes look kind and pleading, and the editor would have sworn that this man could not lie. Kamyshev says he needs money, but his diamond ring and gold watch chain say otherwise. He offers a story called The Shooting Party and insists that every word happened before his eyes, and that he took part.
The editor puts the notebook in a drawer and forgets it for two months. Then he reads it on a train, reads it again that night, and paces his terrace at sunrise with painful thoughts he tries to rub out of his head. So the novel begins by planting a question: how far should we trust a face, and a story told by a man who says he is honest?
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Questions about La partida de caza
What is The Shooting Party by Chekhov about?
It is a crime novel set on a Russian country estate. A bored magistrate, a weak Count and a vain girl in red are drawn together by drink and desire, and a murder follows. The story is told as a manuscript.
Is The Shooting Party a detective novel?
It uses the shape of a detective novel, with a crime, an inquest, suspects and a trial. It is also a study of pride, guilt and appearances, and the narrator pokes fun at crime fiction of his time.
Why does the parrot keep repeating one phrase?
The parrot, named Ivan Dem'yanych, cries out that a husband has killed his wife. It works as a warning and a motif, returning at tense moments and haunting the narrator's mind.
Is The Shooting Party easy to read?
It moves quickly, with short chapters, lively dialogue, vivid scenes of storms, picnics and gypsy songs, and a narrator who speaks straight to the reader. The mystery keeps the pages turning.