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Karl

also: Карл

A stage-manager or authorial-mouthpiece figure in Chekhov's melodrama parody who steps out of the wings to decree that virtue triumph over vice, mocking the genre's heavy-handed moralizing.

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Mentioned in 7 works (11 mentions)

The Correspondent Stories · 1 mention
A Useless Victory Stories · 5 mentions
Another Case Stories · 1 mention
New Year's Great Martyrs Stories · 1 mention
An Event Stories · 1 mention
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 1 mention
Sakhalin Island Nonfiction · 1 mention

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