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Andrei Stolz

Name: Chekhov Entire
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Stolz

also: Штольц

Oblomov's half-German childhood friend and foil in Goncharov's novel "Oblomov", presented by the author as an energetic, admirable man of action; Chekhov rejects this characterization, calling him "half invented, three-quarters stilted," an artful self-satisfied rogue who "inspires no confidence."

Reading notes

To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. §4 Stolz inspires no confidence in me at all
Andrei Stolz, Oblomov's energetic foil in Goncharov's novel; Chekhov rejects the author's presentation of him as admirable, calling him a self-satisfied "artful rogue," "half invented, three-quarters stilted."

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To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. letter · 1 mention

§4 Stolz