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Stories of Men (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Paula P. Ross
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Many of Chekhov's short stories, translated into English during the
early years of the 20th century, do not retain the slavic flavor of
the originals. Ross' translations reverse this trend. The stories
focus on the development and unique existence of the male the
trials and tribulations of adolescence, maturity, and old age.
Chekhov masterfully takes complicated emotional experiences and
presents them with his characteristic intensity and clarity,
allowing readers to vicariously share the experience. His prose is
truly poetic.
Stories of Men begins with "Volodya," a boy on the brink of
independence, caught in an undercurrent of social displacement, who
makes an irreversible mistake. Chekhov's stories of youth including
"A Confession," "The Proud Man," and "The Guardian," a tale of
artistic game-playing are full of comedy, inordinate vanity, and
self-realization. Many of these very early stories were published
in comic magazines under pseudonyms. Later his stories mature as do
the characters in "Fear," "Promotion Preliminary Examination," and
"The Wager," a political comparison of capital punishment and life
imprisonment. Though only in his forties, Chekhov was ready to
contemplate death in "A Tedious Tale."
Ross has made these works more accurate and accessible to the
contemporary reader, while maintaining Chekhov's original intent of
illustrating how time and circumstances can change men. With
thirteen stories only now being presented to the English-speaking
world, Stories of Men will excite all who love this classic
writer's work.
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