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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
also: Граф Монте-Кристо
Alexandre Dumas's sprawling 1844-46 adventure novel of vengeance and disguise, handed to the clerk Merdyaev as reading material precisely for its intimidating length and foreignness.
Reading notes
- Reading (A Tale of an Old Sparrow) §17 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas's sprawling 1844-46 adventure novel of vengeance and disguise, chosen here for its sheer length and foreignness -- exactly what makes it incomprehensible torment for the barely literate Merdyaev.
- Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §21 Counts of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas's sprawling novel of vengeance and disguise, paired with Rocambole as the byword for imported adventure-fiction formula.