An Evening Guest
Author: Alexander Kuprin
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Languages: RU, English
Genre: Essay, Mystery, Short story
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Three unsettling knocks at the door make the narrator see an ordinary encounter as an abyss of chance, choice, and fate.
Characters
- the narrator — a solitary, reflective householder: A knock at the door opens a meditation on life’s contingency.
- the evening guest — the unknown person at the door: He scarcely appears, yet becomes an emblem of possible fate.