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The Undiscovered Chekhov (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Undiscovered Chekhov (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new
Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic collection presents 38 new
stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master.
In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we
have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s,
when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty
and innovative.
Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a
keen modernist. Emphasizing impressions and the juxtaposition of
incongruent elements, instead of the straight narrative his readers
were used to, these stories upturned many of the assumptions of
storytelling of the period.
Here is "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," written as a series of
telegrams, beginning with "Have been drinking to Sarah's health all
week Enchanting She actually dies standing up ..." In
"Confession...," a thirty-nine year old bachelor recounts some of
the fifteen times chance foiled his marriage plans. In "How I Came
to be Lawfully Wed," a couple reminisces about the day they vowed
to resist their parents' plans that they should marry. And in the
more familiarly Chekhovian "Autumn," an alcoholic landowner fallen
low and a peasant from his village meet far from home in a sad and
haunting reunion in which the action of the story is far less
important than the powerful impression it leaves with the reader
that each man must live his life and has his reasons.
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