New answers tagged fyodor-dostoyevsky
2
This short story is a hilarious caricature on the--oh so typical--characters. Both of them are pathetically "ignoble1, repulsive, and senseless", and being such, they of course blame the world on it. Exposing these traits is the centrepoint of much of Chekhov's output.
So this "another old general" is the punch line, so to speak. Like ...
Top 50 recent answers are included
