person
George Sand
also: Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Ж. Занд
French novelist (1804-1876), pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, celebrated across Europe including Russia. Chekhov invokes her name purely for the comic mismatch of a crude peasant proverb attributed to a serious woman of letters.
Reading notes
- Philosophical Definitions of Life §3 G. Sand
George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin), the French novelist -- invoked here purely for the joke of attributing a crude peasant proverb about a torn boot to a famous woman of letters.
- Ivanov §601 A George Sand!
George Sand (1804-1876), pen name of the French novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, celebrated across Europe including Russia for both her prolific fiction and her unconventional, pseudonymous public persona. Lebedev's delighted exclamation, comparing his daughter Sasha's cynical aphorism about gossip to the wit of a famous woman writer, is affectionate parental pride rather than a considered literary judgment -- part of the play's running gallery of grandiose, half-earned comparisons its characters reach for.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §8 George Sand
Pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, the prolific French novelist, cited here as the test case Chekhov dismisses in his mock argument.