figure
Baron Alphonse d'Argenton
Argenton
also: Аржантон
FICTIONAL CHARACTER, the pretentious "poet" figure of Alphonse Daudet's 1874 novel "Jack", to whom Chekhov attributes the line "life is not a novel" as a gloss on Sasha's romantic self-delusion about redeeming Ivanov in "Ivanov." A literary allusion to an existing independent work outside this corpus, not a Chekhov original.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §18 Daudet's Argenton said: life is not a novel!
NEW ENTITY -- refers to the character Baron Alphonse d'Argenton, the pretentious "poet" figure of Alphonse Daudet's 1874 novel "Jack," to whom Chekhov attributes the line "life is not a novel" as a gloss on Sasha's romantic self-delusion. A literary allusion to an existing independent work, not part of this corpus; see the companion allusions entry.