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At a party for summer residents, Ilyin begs Sofya to give in to their mutual desire.
In a final attempt to save her marriage, Sofya reveals everything to Andrey, but he dismisses her feelings as "a fancy". That night, Sofya departs to meet Ilyin.
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The primary theme in "A Misfortune" is sexual enthrallment, one of the dominant concerns in Chekhov's early stories for Novoye Vremya. All these stories reflect a change from Chekhov's earlier writings: As such, it relates especially to the contemporary stories "The Witch", "Mire", and "Agafia". Critics note the influence of Leo Tolstoy on "A Misfortune", especially the novel Anna Karenina , a classic Russian work revolving around adultery.
For Rayfield, though the ending hints at "a catastrophe about to ensue", it comes across as unearned posturing. Comparing "A Misfortune" to the later story "About Love", Rayfield writes that the work shows that Chekhov had not yet moved beyond his influences. Loehlin traces the influence of "A Misfortune" on Chekhov's well known later story " The Grasshopper ", another "study of adultery".
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Translation for 'несчастье' in the free Russian-English dictionary and many other English translations. Translations in context of "несчастье" in Russian-English from Reverso Context: приносить несчастье.
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