My Life

3 hrs. 23 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Anton Chekhov

Narrator Ivan Zlatoustov

Description

The manager told me, “I’m leaving you here only out of respect for your respectable father—otherwise you would have been thrown out long ago.”

I replied, “You’re flattering me, Your Excellency, if you think I’m capable of flying.” Later, I heard him order irritably, “Take this gentleman away—he gets on my nerves.”

A couple of days later, I was dismissed. That’s it—for all the time I’ve been considered an adult, to my father’s considerable disappointment, the city architect—I managed to change nine places. I worked in different institutions, but all nine positions were the same as two drops of water: you had to sit still, write something, put up with absurd or rude remarks, and wait for the next dismissal.

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