external text
Don Quixote and Hamlet
also: Дон-Кихот и Гамлет
Ivan Turgenev's 1860 essay contrasting the two literary archetypes as opposite poles of human character; Chekhov recommends it to his brothers though doubts young Misha will grasp it.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhov, 1879. Taganrog. §3 Turgenev's "Don Quixote and Hamlet"
Ivan Turgenev's 1860 essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote," contrasting the two literary types as opposite poles of human character -- reading Chekhov recommends to his brothers though doubts young Misha will grasp it.