Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Chekov's Works are Worth a Try!!!.......2007-05-06
Anton Chekov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition) would be your best introductory volume to have in first experiencing his works. Not only does Norton have better translations of the stories but also there is an appendix in the back of the volume offering some critical expositions of Chekov's works.
Please keep in mind also that Chekov had a social conscience as well. He did not write merely for capitalistic reasons but wrote about Imperial Russia as an observer and expositor of its decline and eventual fall. Through his various humanitarian activities amongst the Russian peasants class he was able to see first hand the poverty and degradation that was endemic in late 19th Century Czarist Russia.
Chekov's stories are brief windows or vistas into the depths of human character. Unlike Poe or O Henry, there are no "punch lines" at the end of the story...but you do come away with a deeper understanding of the spirit in man.
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Chekhov's Sense of Place.......2007-03-01
Tolstoy accurately compared Chekhov's keen observations; his realistic depiction of the world to that of a photographer with added humor and insight and to the French Impressionists (with an emphasis on light and its changing qualities and ordinary subject matter). Anton Chekhov's short stories are remarkable in their use of detailed and elegant description of place amid narration and character development--a technique which helped to ground me within each story. Each character is influenced by place as well as relationships in a seamless, natural, and realistic manner. The stories employ irony and the theme of communication gone astray in a way that renders new insights. It is especially interesting to witness his progression from his early, darkly humorous, stories to his latter, more serious, and significant works.
A master at work -a search for the essence .......2005-05-24
I have always loved reading the work of a writer along with critical essays that provide richer insights into the work. Such an anthology brings both great stories and serious analysis of the work together. This edition also contains some of Chekhov's memorable correspondance.
After reading many Chekhov stories I think it is possible to venture a few generalizations about the essence of his art. First of all he is a great creator of human character, of idiosyncratic individuals. He too is a master of depicting the clash between the inner dream and longing of the individual and the cruel reality that he faces. The child Vanka who desperately writes letters to his grandfather in the hope of escaping a life of virtual slavery is a prominent example in this work. Chekhov is a writer with a great heart and great feeling for the inner emotions of his characters. And he creates in the reader a sympathy for those characters. Consider the story ' The Darling ' in which a woman's loving and caring and positive nature, a nature which totally supports and takes upon herself the husband or in the end the imagined step- child she cares for , persists through the various individuals who are part of her life. Chekhov is the writer who makes us feel the twilight poignance of life , the great heartbreak of human souls in longing and disappointment. So many of his characters are dreamers, longing for a reality which the crude tough world before them either ignores or violently contradicts. I think that in an age in which people talk about ' post- character literature' it is important to see how much of a great writer's greatness is in the creation of characters, vibrant human beings that the reader can identify with. Chekhov is also the great portrayer of human folly, and does this with irony and humor. Consider how in the story ' The Chameleon' the judge changes his verdict back and forth as he thinks first that the dog which has bitten the complaintant belongs to a highly important official, or does not. This judge changing his opinion to suit what will be good for himself is the perfect embodiment of human injustice and hypocrisy. The foibles and weaknesses of Chekhov's character are everywhere apparent, and yet so many of his characters are , excuse the word, ' lovable'. One feels that Chekhov is a great and generous and loving soul as a writer, and that his spirit pervades his literature.
What a pleasure to be in the world of such a soul.
not all my favorites but a fairly good selection.......2004-07-02
I'm a big fan of Chekhov's earlier, shorter stories, which are more plot and less "atmosphere", like the earlier selections in this book. It's clear to see how the early 1880's Chekhov was influenced by Guy de Maupassant's stories , an influence he acknowledged. Chekhov is equally adept at dealing with both serious and comical themes in his fiction. And although he's best known for his plays, his finest stories too stand the test of time, both in re-creating a historically accurate portrait of Russia and its people in the late 19th century, but also in giving us memorable characters and their stories to enjoy. Although his stories are often sad or tragic, Chekhov writes about these Russians with a real sympathy and understanding that is endearing to the reader. This collection of over 30 of his stories covers the span of his whole literary career, from the early 1880's to 1903, the year before his death.
David Rehak
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Poor translations.......2002-04-20
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Constance Garnett ruins Chekhov for me.
Her work is reprinted for financial reasons, not artistic ones. Want to read "good" Chekhov? Read Robert Payne or Ann Dunnigan's translations. Yarmolinsky is good too.
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Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov , Ol'ga Leonardovna Knipper , and Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova
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amazing and romantic.......2006-06-03
I read this book 4 years ago, I finished it passed midnight, and the words touched my heart so deeply that to date I have read it over and over, and any time I read it I cant help myself to cry.
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- Life is mostly disappointment
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Three Sisters (Tcg Translations)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Olga, Masha and Irina lead a drab life in a provincial garrison town. Because their love lives leave a lot to be desired, they dream of eventually escaping to Moscow. Some critics have called this the best drama of the 20th century. Two 90-minute cassettes.
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CHEBUTYKIN. My dear girls, my darlings, you are all that I have, you are the most precious treasures I have on earth. I shall soon be sixty, I am an old man, alone in the world, a useless old man. . . . There is nothing good in me, except my love for you, and if it were not for you, I should have been dead long ago.
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Life is mostly disappointment .......2006-08-20
The 'Three Sisters' is another Chekhov depiction of life's pains, disappointments, hopes , illusions and moments of beauty. It is once again as in the 'Seagull' life in the provinces which is a central villain depriving the heroines of what they believe would be a fuller more realized life in the city. Each one of the sisters does not come to the Love and realization in life that they dreamed. Olga the schoolteacher ends up as the mistress of her school, but this is not her heart's desire. Masha longs for a richer kind of love with one wiser than the husband she has outgrown .Irina dreams of an escape she can never make. Their brother Andrei who marries the peasant woman Natalya and has two children with her , sees her take over his life and drive out the sisters from the ancestral home.
The characters as is usually the case with Chekhov are not one- dimensional but are complex mixtures .Though the play ends in the seeming failure of all , a speech of sister Olga suggests that 'hopelessness' is not the last word for Chekhov, but dream and delusion maintain us to the end.
"We shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before. Oh, dear sisters, our life is not ended yet. We shall live! The music is so happy, so joyful, and it seems as though in a little while we shall know what we are living for, why we are suffering... If we only knew--if we only knew!"
A fable for the modern reader.......2001-01-15
Checkov was a master of composing life's largest problems into beautiful language and ordinary situations which the entire world could understand. Granted he wrote them a long time ago but the underlying situation exists everywhere today. Here are three sisters completely unable to move on with their lives. They are unhappy, they are desperate for a change of scene, they are forced to give up anyone they love to someone else but yet they remain glued to the exact place where all of this occurs. Olga has passed her prime, Masha loves someone other than her husband, and Irina has no idea what could possibly make her happy and all they do is talk about change, but never do anything active. And in the end it all comes full circle and we as an audience, a reader, need to decide how to not fall into such a life rut, to learn by their actions as we do from Aesop's fables. This play is just written a great deal better, with a little more comedy and tugging at the heartstrings.
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Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales (Literature and Medicine (Kent, Ohio), 5.)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov , and John L., M.D. Coulehan
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Chekhov's Doctors.......2004-04-20
The greatest works of fiction afford a glimpse into human nature, into its dark secrets, pettiness, and callowness, as well as into moments of true magnanimity. Conflict and misunderstanding between individuals is another core ingredient in the best of fiction. The best writers have an innate grasp of what makes up the human creature, and have a fluency in psychological analysis that comes only from keen natural intuition. Yet even the most subtle grasp of human nature alone is insufficient material for the creation of great fiction; for the successful author must also be able to draw from a rich backdrop of life experience.
Medicine, like few other professions, provides such a backdrop and as such it is likely not coincidental that there exists a glorious intersection between the fields of writing and medicine. A physician, in the course of his daily work regularly comes across the themes that most people encounter only infrequently-fear, illness, suffering, and death, as well as hope, courage, and perseverance. These titanic forces flush out the essence of human nature, and the physician who is so inclined is provided with boundless material for the exploration of humanity through fiction.
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), the great Russian author and playwright, was a physician by trade. Chekhov draws abundantly on his experience in medicine in his fiction and drama, and this is brought out in a recently published compilation of Chekhov's medically-related short stories.
In this volume of stories, Chekhov imposes a frank-almost brutal-examination of human nature, and a critical look at the practice of medicine and at those who practice it. The themes in his stories are apparently timeless; any practicing physician will recognize the cynicism, politics, burnout, and overwork that is described by Chekhov. In one story of a beleaguered, overworked rural doctor in the employ of the state, Chekhov even provides a glimpse into what must have been a nineteenth century Russian version of the frustrations of working in a managed care environment. In the story, the physician is forced to care for a large, impoverished population in a clinic over which he exercises no executive authority. Not only is he powerless under the system to fire his incompetent, corrupt, and drunken support staff, but in his prescriptions is at the mercy of a central power that determines the source of pharmaceuticals.
Another story traces the devolution of an earnest, ideological young physician into a money grubbing, lazy, and cynical doctor who treats his patients like objects. This same doctor, who possesses abundant theoretical knowledge of pathology and the practice of medicine, is utterly unable to apply his wisdom to heal patients because of his stifling arrogance and lack of empathy for his patients.
Some of Chekhov's physicians struggle to strike a balance between adequate time for their own lives and families and availability to their patients. This conflict is starkly illustrated by a story in which a physician is forced to choose between attending the deathbed of his only child and responding to an emergency call.
Chekhov also examines the proper role of professional objectivity and distance in medicine. At what point does the curtain that every physician draws between himself and his patient in order to facilitate detached, objective thinking become a mighty bulkhead constructed primarily for self defense? Several stories explore this question, and Chekhov seems to conclude that the answer lies in a happy medium.
All is not dark, however, in the world of Chekhov's doctors. Even amidst the burnout, substance abuse, and money-worship of some of his characters, there are the redeeming qualities of absolute dedication, devotion to the pursuit of medical knowledge, and perseverance even under very unfavorable circumstances. The doctors in his stories are complex, and some of these redeeming qualities even coexist with the uglier traits in some of Chekhov's characters.
Chekhov's Doctors is a well-edited volume that arranges stories in an inviting and readable sequence, (saving lengthier, heavier stories for later in the volume). Dr. Coulehan, the editor, also places Chekhov's stories in historical context, providing the reader with, for example, an ample yet not overwhelming background of Chekhov's relationship with Tolstoy (whose titan influence was difficult for any contemporary Russian author to escape). Of particular interest is a series of commentary in the back of the volume that provides a brief analysis of each story from the author's perspective as a medical doctor.
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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories (Tales of Chekhov, Vol 9)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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- A lot of Chekhov is here - but a lot ain't!
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Anton Chekhov's Plays (A Norton Critical Edition)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov , and Eugene K. Bristow
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A lot of Chekhov is here - but a lot ain't!.......2000-06-11
Basically I picked this book up hoping that it would have the hard-to-find play, "Wild Honey," the closest Chekhov ever came to being Noel Coward. Not here! Ivanov - not here! The Bear - Not Here! While the essays are here and several insightful writings - to call this book "THE PLAYS" is an utter falsehood, not when there is so much missing.
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- Is it a comedy or not?
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The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Tom Murphy's Irish vernacular adaptation of Chekhov's most popular play allows us to re-imagine the events in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism, giving The Cherry Orchard a vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.</p>
Tom Murphy is an award-winning Irish playwright whose work includes The Sanctuary, Bailegangaire, and The Wake.</p>
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PISCHIN. Well . . Dashenka told me. Now I'm in such a position, I wouldn't mind forging them . . . I've got to pay 310 roubles the day after to-morrow . . . I've got 130 already. . . . [Feels his pockets, nervously] I've lost the money! The money's gone! [Crying] Where's the money? [Joyfully] Here it is behind the lining . . . I even began to perspire.
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On Chekhov's art .......2006-08-21
Chekhov's plays work on many different levels. On the one it is the story of the characters' relationships to each other. Often in Chekhov there is disillusionment and disappointment, misunderstanding and desire unrealized. Often too the characters have ideas and dreams about themselves which simply do not find their justification in the world. But in all this there is always interspersed moments of tenderness and poignancy, of delicate feeling, perceptions of beauty.
On another level there are ' major themes'. Here it is of the Old Order passing and the coming of the new. The 'Cherry Orchard' is the symbol of this. And the purchase of it by the former serf Lopahin is the sign of the transition taking place in Russia. The old order people, Ranskanaya her daughters and brother cling to the older world, refuse to sell it out by accepting the offer to build on it dachas, and connect it with the railway line. But in the end the extravagance of Ranskaya is forced to yield, and the 'Cherry Orchard' is cut down.
In the final moments of the play the elderly servant Firs, the true symbol of the one raised in the old order and too deeply connected to it, to ever leave it, lies down and seems to pass away.
Chekhov's art is an art of sadness and beauty, of cruelty and change , but above all of human character and feeling portrayed in complexity and contradiction- and in a language of poetic compression deep in feeling.
Is it a comedy or not?.......2005-10-24
I couldn't figure out whether this was a comedy or not. It says at the beginning of the play that it is, but for the most part it seemed really depressing to me. I know technically you can't call it a tragedy because the heroine didn't cause her own downfall, but still, it most certainly was NOT a comedy.
All that aside, I thought the play was fairly enjoyable. It is basically about a rich family in Russia who are forced to sell their estate and cherry orchard because they have no money. Altogether, it was fairly interesting, but confusing. The character's names were so similar that I had to keep looking back to figure out who was who. Three stars.
Poor Delivery.......2005-10-02
The item itself was in great condition. However, the package got lost in the mail so they shipped me another copy, which I received. I was grateful for this, but I really needed the book early on and had to wait almost a month to receive a copy.
Unbeatable price for this historical tragi-comedy.......2004-12-10
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is a play about social classes: what their members are, what they do, and how they interact. The problem is, at the turn of the 20th century in Russia, society is evolving and class distinctions are being effaced to an ever greater degree. The central questions involve how a member of a once-clear caste, whether aristocrat or serf, should now behave in the new social milieu. A character-based analysis seems the most effective way to discuss these issues.
On the one hand are those, such as the old butler Firs, deeply attached to the former ways, who see the past a golden age to be preserved as much as possible. Most of the family also falls into this category. At the other extreme are people like the student Petya, who welcome the changes and, in certain cases, wish for even greater revolution in society. The prosperous merchant Lopakhin, for instance, tends more toward this attitude than the other.
And then there are those who simply live the lives they have always lived out of sheer habit, having no strong feelings about, and indeed largely ignoring, the societal transformations going on around them--much to their detriment. There are the servants, such as the gardener Yepikhodov and the maid Dunyasha, who evince this unambitious and desultory mindset toward their lives. But there are also the two daughters, whose only thought in the world is to get married, though even then it seems more a wish and a fancy that they rest their lives on than a real goal towards which they are committed to work. They likely inherited this trait from their mother Lyubov.
Indeed, Lyubov is one of the two central characters around which the play revolves. The house and the cherry orchard belong to her and her eccentric, overly optimistic, and in some respects nave brother Gaev. Lyubov is an expensive and an attractive woman. Her chief characteristic, without a doubt, is a lack of continence, both emotionally and fiscally, for the latter often follows the former in her case. The open purse is her symbol. She lives through rose-colored glasses, and because of this is gullible. Betrayed and ruined, she never learns; indeed, at the end of the play we see her returning to Paris, surely to be disappointed once again. She wants everything to work out; but she refuses to adapt and to face the consequences and responsibilities that would allow her plans to succeed. At one point she says, in a trademark quote of hers, "What is one to do in one's life? One is to drink one's coffee." Having lived always in luxury, she is spoiled, and like so many of her class she will not learn her lesson until it is too late.
The other central character of the play is the rich and shrewd peasant Lopakhin. In short, he is a prosperous pragmatist. Through agriculture enterprises and a keen business sense, Lopakhin has amassed a fortune. His mind thinks only of money and of work, never of love or other more human affairs. When romance is suggested, he is receptive to the possibility but is soon pulled from it because it is not central to who he is. He has a sort of tunnel vision, for he is obsessed with proving himself to his serf father's ghost by earning and gaining more and continuously striving to shed the status of peasant, a reproach which clings to him and burns in his memory. This is clearly an inescapable influence in his life. His hands, always working and never at rest, are the center of his character and are symbolic of his essence. He confesses at the end, "I feel like my hands belong to someone else." His statement could hardly be more accurate. Lopakhin represents one side of the serf's struggle to comprehend and to appropriate their newly gained freedoms. "When I work hard," he says, "then I am at peace." In one scene he tries to force Petya to accept money from him, for material prosperity means very little to him. He achieves his external goals, but throughout the play he seems blind as to the direction his internal quest must take. He is seeking to come to rest in an identity, and it is unclear whether he ever does.
This ambiguity is the permeating mood at the end of the play. Society has changed and will continue to do so. But whether any of the characters will find firm identities in the new structure is never resolved. Rather, Chekhov leaves us with the death of the old guard: the butler Firs, pro-aristocrat to the end. This is a visible way of showing that although classes may rise and fall, when a large section of the populace's self-concepts are bound up with a class, change is hard.
A dreadful play........2004-02-11
"The Cherry Orchard" is an atrocious play. If we hold this play in high regard, then we dramatist's need to reevaluate our standards. Chekhov wrote a play that will make you not care an inch about the character's or their situation(s). For him to think that this is a comedy makes you wonder if he understood the point he himself was trying to make. The characters are pathetic and they'll make you pity them - not because of their predicaments, but because of whom they are. I do not recommend.
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The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Contents: A Day in the Country; Old Age; Kashtanka; Enemies; On the Way; Vanka; La Cigale; Grief; An Inadvertence; The Black Monk; The Kiss; In Exile; A Work of Art; Dreams; A Woman's Kingdom; The Doctor; A Trifling Occurrence; The Hollow; After the Theater; The Runaway; Vierochka; The Steppe; Rothschild's Fiddle.
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The Wood Demon
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov , and Nicholas Saunders
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Those audiences fortunate enough to have seen a production of Chekhov's The Wood Demon, know that it is a marvel, a play equal to The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters.
Unlike the others, The Wood Demon is a young man's play, bursting with vitality, energy, and hope. Chekhov has not yet drawn the sky close around his characters: they are able to continue on, undaunted, in the face of sorrow and disappointment. In its intermingling of tears and laughter, The Wood Demon may be one of the most astonishingly Chekhovian of all Chekhov's plays.
This translation of The Wood Demon was produced by The Mark Taper Forum as a classics lab workshop production and will debut on the Taper mainstage in the 1993-94 season.
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Great.......2007-03-28
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The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories: The Tales of Chekhov (Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, Short Stories. V. 3.)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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