Intrecci Edizione proposes a new series dedicated to the classics. The first output is "Arianna” by Anton Chekhov, a brilliant and, at the same time, bitter story that expresses well the main themes dealt with in the works of the Russian writer and playwright: boredom, the inability to live and to have balanced human relationships, the selfishness and the fall of illusions. A country boy destroyed by jealousy, because the beloved leaves the country with a married man, joins her in Italy without knowing that ruin is around the corner.
Synopsis
During a voyage from Odessa to Sevastopol by steamboat, the narrator meets a man, Ivan Il'ič Samochin, who begins to tell the story of how he met the woman with whom he fell madly and unfortunately in love. Arianna she is the sister of a neighbor, a landowner who fell into disgrace. The girl, despite her poverty, welcomes her high-ranking origins and never misses an opportunity to show her culture and charm worthy of a noble, bewitching even her young man who knows how to be devoted to her . Things change when a married and faithless man seduces her with her expert globetrotting ways; Ivan then begins to feel jealous of the intruder, even if he is reassured by his beloved. Suddenly, however, Arianna leaves on a secret journey with her lover; for the boy they are days of torment, obsession and anguish, until she sends him a letter in which she begs him to join her. When Ivan arrives in Italy he finds a fragile woman, alone and abandoned but above all full of debts. The idyll between the two lasts very little: Arianna, in order to maintain the facade of luxury and nobility, completely squanders Ivan's savings, who finally understands who he is in love with. A bitter fate awaits them: she is forced to live a now humble existence in Russia; he, on the other hand, is forced to stay close to a person with whom he not only is no longer in love with, but who he despises.
Author biography
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian writer and playwright. Born into a humble family, he had a poor and difficult childhood. With great sacrifices he manages to graduate in medicine, but practices the profession of doctor only occasionally, devoting himself, instead, to literary activity. Seriously ill, he buys a small estate near Moscow and, impressed by the way of life of poor peasants, pledges his earnings to build schools, roads and hospitals for them. His work mainly includes stories and plays in which he describes with irony, pessimism and detachment the crisis of the Russian bourgeoisie of his time. His characters represent and express universal human themes, such as the difficult search for happiness, misunderstanding and loneliness. Among the main works we mention the Tales (1884-1900) and the dramas "The Seagull" (1895), "Uncle Vanya" (1899), "The Three Sisters" (1901) and "The Cherry Orchard" (1904).
Intrecci Editions
Intrecci Editions was born in 2015 in Rome. Independent publishing housecares a lot about the quality of the final product. Select very carefully the authors to be published by carefully evaluating the works that are proposed. He mainly deals with fiction with an eye to non-fiction related to communication issues. From the love of reading, the "Enne Classics" series was created in 2020, thanks to a meticulous search made in libraries and second-hand book markets to discover rare pearls of Italian and international literature.
