The Duel (Russian: Поединок; Poedinok) is a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Kuprin published in 1905. It is generally considered his best work; even though Kuprin's 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer it was The Duel (1905) which made him famous.
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- 1905
- Поединок
- Alexander Kuprin
At a time, when the Tsarist Military forces were being humiliated, Kuprin’s novel offered a scathing critique of Russia’s army and Russian social mores. Drawing on over ten years experience as a cadet and officer, Kuprin portrays the Russian army as being incompetent and having a foul culture.
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- Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Александр Иванович Куприн; 7 September [ O.S. 26 August] 1870 – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) [2] and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made in...
- Russia
- Novelist, short story writer,playwright, journalist
9 de jul. de 2008 · `The Duel` (1905) is Russian author Aleksandr Kuprin's realist masterpiece, wining him literary fame and friendship with Anton Chekov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Nobel Prize-winning Ivan Bunin and Leo Tolstoy. Kuprin was a born storyteller and has been compared with Kipling and Jack London.
An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel — over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be a luminous depiction of the end of an era.
- Alexander Kuprin
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