Abstract

DEL CASTILLO PULGARIN, Elsa Mariana. INSANITY AS A VOICE OF DENOUNCEMENT IN WARD No. 6, BY ANTON CHEKHOV. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2021, n.79, pp.370-383.  Epub Nov 21, 2022. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n79a20.

Throughout history, insanity has been a recurring theme, along with love and death, in universal literature. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), who through his stories has been distinguished for looking not into the noble hero with fantastic abilities, but into the mediocre and unhappy man, uses madness as a metaphor from a realistic approach to denounce the precarious hospital conditions of the tsarist Russian society at the end of the 19th century, which it is said could be compared to a ward in a mental institution.

Keywords : Russian literature; insanity and literature; Ward No. 6 (1892); Anton Chekhov (1860-1904); denouncement.

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