work
A First-Class Passenger
"A First-Class Passenger"
also: Пассажир 1-го класса, Passazhir 1-go klassa
A Chekhov story in which an engineer and a professor, sharing a train compartment, argue about the nature of fame; invoked here by Chekhov himself as evidence for his claim that what is loved in a well-known man is often not the ordinary man himself but the extraordinary figure others project onto him. First appearance by title in this corpus's translated letters.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 24–25 November 1888. Moscow. §4 the story "A First-Class Passenger"
"A First-Class Passenger" ("Пассажир 1-го класса"), in which an engineer and a professor argue about fame, appears here for the first time by title in this corpus's translated letters; catalogued as a new work entity establishing Chekhov's own gloss on its theme.