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This article examines how the first-person memoir form and the retelling of Katya’s letters generate a paradox of communication in Chekhov’s A Boring Story. Whereas previous studies have focused primarily on the work’s existential significance, this study shifts attention to the principles according to which Nikolai’s acts of speaking, listening, and writing are arranged and repeated within the narrative.
Nikolai’s memoir reveals the paradox of communication on three levels. First, by referring to himself as “His Excellency” and employing plural verb forms, he situates himself within the gaze of the Other. Yet this act of self-objectification does not expand his relation to others; instead, it leads to the repeated confirmation of an already fixed self-image. Second, while verbs of hearing and descriptions of sound recur throughout the text, references to taste are almost entirely absent. This asymmetry of the senses suggests that Nikolai’s perception remains at the level of unilateral observation rather than reciprocal engagement. Finally, Katya’s letters are not quoted verbatim but are reconfigured through Nikolai’s own language. The process of retelling becomes the point at which communication with the Other is most intensely attempted, yet it is also where its limits are most clearly exposed.
Thus, although the forms of communication persist, meaningful mutual understanding ultimately fails to materialize. Through the interplay of the memoir form and the retelling of letters, A Boring Story narratively represents the repetition and reinforcement of Nikolai’s closed self-awareness in a condition where communication has already broken down.
Nikolai’s memoir reveals the paradox of communication on three levels. First, by referring to himself as “His Excellency” and employing plural verb forms, he situates himself within the gaze of the Other. Yet this act of self-objectification does not expand his relation to others; instead, it leads to the repeated confirmation of an already fixed self-image. Second, while verbs of hearing and descriptions of sound recur throughout the text, references to taste are almost entirely absent. This asymmetry of the senses suggests that Nikolai’s perception remains at the level of unilateral observation rather than reciprocal engagement. Finally, Katya’s letters are not quoted verbatim but are reconfigured through Nikolai’s own language. The process of retelling becomes the point at which communication with the Other is most intensely attempted, yet it is also where its limits are most clearly exposed.
Thus, although the forms of communication persist, meaningful mutual understanding ultimately fails to materialize. Through the interplay of the memoir form and the retelling of letters, A Boring Story narratively represents the repetition and reinforcement of Nikolai’s closed self-awareness in a condition where communication has already broken down.
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