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Jan 17, 2020 · No one sums up Anton Chekhov’s work better than the man himself. The Russian playwright and short story artiste is regarded now as one of the greatest pioneers of psychological realism....
- Three Sisters Review
Chekhov depicts youthful hope crushed by work and the burden...
- Three Sisters Review
Jun 25, 2024 · In his short life – he died of tuberculosis at 44 years old – he wrote hundreds of short stories and several plays. Chekhov’s most important works reflect on themes of resilience, love, loss, and compassion, amidst the tumultuous landscapes of human experience.
- The Cherry Orchard’ Lyubov Ranevskaya is kind and generous, but also absent-minded and impractical. The head of the high-society family doesn’t know the value of money and is flat broke.
- Three Sisters’ Olga is 28, Masha is 25 and Irina is only 20. One is permanently tired, the other is trying to sort herself out and the third is self-obsessed to the point where she is worried about getting old, moving further and further away from the “real and wonderful life” that exists somewhere else.
- The Seagull’ Actress Irina Arkadina, her son Konstantin Treplev, famous writer Boris Trigorin and Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of being a stage star, are involved in a turbid tangle of relationships filled with drama and unrequited love.
- The Lady with the Dog’ Dmitry Gurov, a forty-something womanizer, seduces Anna Sergeevna, a young provincial on a seaside vacation in Yalta, Crimea.
May 14, 2019 · Anton Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904 was talking about other writers when he said, “The best of them are realists and depict life as it is, but because every line they write is permeated, as with a juice, by a consciousness of an aim, you feel in addition to life as it is, also…
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and master of the modern short story. He described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school.
- By the time he completed medical school (1884), Chekhov had been writing fiction for several years—mainly anecdotes for humour magazines. His first...
- Although Chekhov is best known for his plays, some critics think that his stories are even more creative and significant. Chekhov’s elusive, superf...
- Chekhov captured life in the Russia of his time by using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices. He is regarded as the...
- Chekhov took his long-winded and ineptly facetious play Wood Demon (1888–89) and converted it—largely by cutting—into Uncle Vanya, one of his great...
- In March 1897 Chekhov suffered a lung hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis, symptoms of which had appeared considerably earlier. The effects of tuberc...
1. Seagull (1896) Seagull at Moscow's Taganka Theatre. Vladimir Vyatkin/Sputnik. Imperial Russia. The amateur playwright Konstantin Treplev is staging a play that he wrote in his uncle’s...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Russian writer Anton Chekhov is recognized as a master of the modern short story and a leading playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
