Special Quarantine Edition - Gusev by Anton Chekhov

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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More bonus content! For those of you living in isolation (and those of you who aren't), Jacke explores the depths of the human condition - as well as its ultimate beauty - with the help of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and his short story masterpiece, "Gusev." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. Hello. Well, here we go, people.
0:24.0	Full quarantine mode.
0:26.0	I have a few episodes scheduled that were recorded before the quarantine, so you might wonder why those
0:31.7	don't mention it.
0:33.0	But this one, I'm recording in the midst of the quarantine.
0:37.0	I've gotten some requests for bonus content, which is understandable,
0:42.0	since many people around the world are at home, sometimes alone,
0:47.0	sometimes in need of something other than the news, something other than the quiet, not the noise, not the quiet. What fills the gap?
0:59.0	How about some literature? Maybe some checkoff. That should do the trick. Anton Chekoff today on the special quarantine edition of the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Hello everyone,
1:23.4	welcome to the history of literature. Okay, here we go.
1:33.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the History of Literature.
1:35.0	I'm Jack Wilson.
1:37.0	Bringing you a special quarantine edition of the History of Literature.
1:42.0	Hope you're all staying healthy and safe. So Chuckov is one
1:48.6	of my heroes. We've talked about him several times here on the podcast. There's an episode with his story,
1:53.7	The Lady with a Little Dog,
1:55.6	and another one with his story, Gooseberries.
1:59.0	We also talked about him with author Charles Baxter
2:02.4	a while ago. We could do a dozen of his stories. They are so rich and so good.
2:08.0	And they're appropriate for today. Chuckov was a doctor, of course. He saw suffering, he saw anxiety. He saw
2:17.1	how people rep their mind around illness. He was himself ill, stricken with tuberculosis, the disease that had killed his brother in
2:28.2	1889 and eventually took Chekhov's life in 1904.
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