EL DUELO

The Duel is a novel by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. First published in 1891 in the newspaper New Time, this work showcases Chekhov's mature prose during an important transitional period in Russian literature and culture. The novel is set between the decline of the great Russian realist novel and the rise of the avant-garde tendencies that would come to define the modernist era on the eve of the Russian Revolution. The Duel is a love letter to 19th-century Russian literature, simultaneously quoting and imitating the major literary stylistic achievements that preceded it and marking the beginning of a new period, when the ideological battles of the past, represented in the novel by a real duel, have been fought.