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September 13, 2025 77 mins
The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook. Genre: tragedy Step into the shadowy heart of Anton Chekhov’s haunting tale, where the quiet rhythms of country life are fractured by a voice only one man can hear. The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant but lonely scholar who, while resting at a provincial estate, begins to see a mysterious, nocturnal figure — the Black Monk — who crowns him with prophetic assurances of genius. What begins as an intoxicating balm to Kovrin’s fragile spirit soon exposes the brittle boundary between creative exaltation and destructive delusion. Chekhov’s masterful economy of language renders every detail luminous: the hush of the birch groves, the warming domestic rituals of marriage, the clinical compassion of concerned friends and family, and the mounting dread that a singular mind may be unraveling. This audiobook brings out the story’s psychological intensity and moral ambiguity, making you feel the tremor of hope when genius seems possible and the slow, inevitable pull of tragedy when reality reasserts itself. Perfect for listeners drawn to literary psychological drama, The Black Monk is a compact, devastating exploration of love, sanity, and the dangerous consolations of genius — read with an intimacy that will linger long after the last line. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:42:31) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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