concept
Pencilled Wall Inscription
wall inscription
also: карандашная надпись
A found inscription left by a previous tenant on a wall -- a comic device letting an absent character's voice intrude on the scene, here Lieutenant Fildekosov's melodramatic graffiti in the old crypt-cottage.
Reading notes
- The Kulachye's Nest §31 In this abode of the dead I contracted melancholy
A found wall inscription left by a previous tenant -- a comic device Chekhov uses elsewhere, letting an absent character's voice intrude on the scene through graffiti.
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