By Anton Chekhov
This selection of Chekhov's best early writing unearths a tender author getting to know the artwork of the quick tale. 'The Steppe', which proven his recognition, is the unforgettable story of a boy's trip to a brand new college in Kiev, traveling via majestic landscapes in the direction of an unknown future. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, the place the ocean takes on a terrifying, primeval strength; 'The Kiss' portrays a shy soldier's failed romantic come upon; and in 'The Duel' men's enmity results in farce. Haunting and hugely atmospheric, the entire tales during this quantity exhibit a author rising from the shadow of his masters – Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol – and learning his personal voice. additionally they illustrate Chekhov's genius for evoking the flora and fauna and exploring internal lives.
Contents:
The Steppe
Panpipes
The Kiss
Verochka
The Name-day Party
A Dreary Story
Gusev
The Duel
Translated by means of Ronald Wilks.
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The fact that we might always have been mistaken, as the Academics had consistently argued against the Stoics, is irrelevant: in such a case we have an accurate grasp of the object or state of affairs represented by the impression. Of course, given the Academic arguments for the indiscriminability of true and false impressions, any impression we in fact assent to may be false, so our knowledge-claims are always fallible. 52 On this interpretation, the third position—Philo’s ‘fallibilism’— constitutes a radical rejection of the Academic corollary argument, 50.
The wary reader should note three points in particular about the English translation. The first two concern simplifications of Cicero’s Latin in the translation, designed to improve its fluency and philosophical precision. • Where possible, the translation uses only the terms ‘apprehend’ and ‘apprehension’ to translate the variety of verbs and nouns Cicero employed to represent the Greek terms katalambanein and katalêpsis. Cicero makes it explicit in Ac. 17 that the three terms he uses are supposed to translate the Greek technical term.
55. See Barnes 1989. Antiochus’ syncretism is confirmed by Cicero’s relentless jibes in Ac. , in epistemology (Ac. 112–13—cf. Fin. 143) and ethics (Ac. 132–4—cf. Fin. 134). , Ac. , Ac. 56 The latter claim, however, makes understanding Antiochus’ own position rather difficult, despite the fairly detailed account of his interpretation of the Old Academic, Peripatetic, and Stoic views in Ac. 1. For it is not clear from that account whether Antiochus means us to take the original ‘Platonic’ position, a Peripatetic revision of it, or its Stoicized ‘correction’ as authoritative.