Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3041266 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03
• Original language: Russian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

Review
"'Chekhovian.' It's clear that this adjective had to be invented for the new voice Chekhov's genius breathed into the world--elusive, inconclusive, flickering; nuanced through an underlying disquiet, though never morbid or disgruntled; unerringly intuitive, catching out of the air vibrations, glittering motes, faint turnings of the heart, tendrils thinner than hairs, drift. But Chekhov's art is more than merely Chekhovian. It is dedicated to explicit and definitive portraiture and the muscular trajectory of whole lives. Each story, however allusive or broken-off, is nevertheless exhaustive--like the curve of a shard that implies not simply the form of the pitcher entire, but also the thirsts of its shattered civilization."
--Cynthia Ozick

Synopsis
Third volume in the set of Anton Checkov's stories edited and introduced by Shelby Foote.