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Chekhov, Chekov Anton Pavlovich. 1860--1904, Russian dramatist and short-story writer. His plays include The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1900), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Maslow's motives are understood to be genuine, a prerequisite of a Chekhovian rather than a Schnitzlerian take on him; yet since the symmetry of the novel demands that Vincent's take must be too, we must accept that on some level, he really believed what he said as a neo-Nazi. There's nothing of this design, or of Zuber's costumes, to distract us from watching Mathias' splendid cast go about its Chekhovian business. The events themselves are compelling, obviously, but the power of the story, as with any fine fiction, is largely a product of its delivery--the controlled, evocative prose; the pacing and scenic choreography; the final Chekhovian move toward a certainty that, in the course of one well-wrought passage, is destroyed in favor of a stark, uncompromisingly complex realism. |
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