person
Nikolai Ivanovich Chimsha-Gimalaysky
Nikolai Ivanych
also: Николай Иваныч, Nikolai Ivanych, Николай
Ivan Ivanych's younger brother, a lifelong clerk in a provincial Chamber of State Property whose decades of saving and a loveless marriage finally buy him a small estate with gooseberry bushes; tasting his own sour berries at last, he pronounces them delicious, becoming his brother's central example of self-satisfied happiness bought at others' expense.
Reading notes
- Gooseberries §23 Nikolai Ivanych
Ivan Ivanych's younger brother, a clerk whose lifelong dream of a small country estate with gooseberry bushes becomes the story's central case study in self-satisfied happiness bought at the cost of both truth and other people's suffering.
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Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov")
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