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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Remizov, Alexei

Titel

THE KIND GUARD

Ist Teil von

• The Little Devil and Other Stories, 2021, p.173-184

Ort / Verlag

New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL, “THE KIND GUARD” IS SET IN ST. PETERSBURG, WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS AND THEIR PROFESSOR. REMIZOV RETURNS TO THE THEME OF DESTINY IN THIS STORY. THE ACCEPTANCE OF ONE’S ABILITIES PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN A MAN’S DESIRE TO BETTER HIMSELF. In one of the wretched attics of the Eremeyev rental building on Vasilevsky Island in St. Petersburg there lived Lapin, a student at the Medical Academy. Studying was hard for him, but getting a piece of bread was even harder. However, he was brave, diligent, and persistent. Sashenka, a hat maker of a minor sort,