Chekov brilliantly encapsulates the sheer boredom and monotony of his characters lives in this short story by emphasizing the grey world around them , made brighter for each by the others presence - doing this by the fact that almost no conversation takes place except during their dirext encount...
My least favorite Chekhov story, but still a good one. The specialty of Anton Chekhov is, his stories can ease the readers in such a manner no matter what he writes about. It has lot do with his characters and more than anything, the atmosphere he creates in his stories. His villages are breath t...
«Assis à côté d’une jeune femme qui paraissait si belle dans la clarté de l’aube, apaisé et ravi par la vue de ce tableau féerique : la mer, les montagnes, les nuages, le vaste ciel, Gourov songeait qu’au fond, à bien y réfléchir, tout est beau ici-bas, tout, excepté ce que nous pensons et faison...
This book consists of five different plays. As I read each one, I just wrote down my thoughts:Ivanov: a disillusioned landowner is fed up with his life. Really, he just over-thinks everything and has given up on trying to be happy. There is a lot of fussing over Ivanov and his choices - ever sinc...
Chekhov’s literary reputation may rest chiefly on his masterpiece plays – Seagull, Cherry Orchard, etc. – but he is also widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. This chronological story collection, which spans the years 1880 to 1903, raises the question of just what that means.If...
It's rare to find a book that can give either a lot of delight or none at all, depending on how carefully it is read. On the surface, these stories seem dreary, marked by unwarranted cruelty, untreated disease, and unrewarded hardship. But dig a little deeper, and it's as though Chekhov is inviti...
That means, Grekova and I are now quits... She’ll soil my name throughout the province. ... So it should be... For the first time in my life a woman is punishing me... [After all, it was they that spoiled me. . . .] (Lies down on the divan.) You act meanly to them, and they hang on your neck... S...
The veterinarian Ivan Ivanych and the high-school teacher Burkin were tired of walking, and the fields seemed endless to them. Far ahead the windmills of the village of Mironositskoe were barely visible, to the right a line of hills stretched away and then disappeared far beyond the village, and ...
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Superfluous Men: A Grand Russian Tradition Laevsky’s Zeitgeist—Selection from Anton Chekhov’s The Duel. In the Beginning, Lord Byron created Cain—Monologue from Lord Byron’s play, Cain. The Rake’s Progress—Selection from Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of our Time. Ivan Turgenev’s names the leitmotiv—...