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Sofya Petrovna Lubyantseva

Sofya Petrovna

also: Софья Петровна, Лубянцева, Соня, Сонечка, Sonya, Sonechka

A notary's young wife of about twenty-five who spends a summer day and evening resisting, in speech, the advances of the family friend Ilyin while an attraction she cannot master keeps surfacing against her will; the story tracks her self-lacerating inner conflict between her sense of herself as a moral wife and mother and a desire she cannot control, ending as she walks out into the night unable to stop herself.

Mentioned in 3 works (30 mentions)

A Misfortune Stories · 28 mentions
To the Chekhovs, 26 June 1890. Ot Pokrovskoy do Blagoveshchenska. letter · 1 mention
To L. S. Mizinova, 20 June 1891. Bogimovo. letter · 1 mention

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