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Bezig met laden... The Comic Storiesdoor Anton Chekhov
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Chekhov is mentioned by Harold Bloom (How to Read and Why, p. 36) as one of the short story authors who had: Bloom sees the lineage from Shakespeare to Turgenev to Chekhov to Hemingway, which stems from their: It is interesting that Mortimer Adler (How to Read a Book) doesn't mention Chekhov (or Turgenev), yet Bloom and Italo Calvino (Why Read the Classics, p. 185) see Chekhov as focused on: I wonder if this is the result of Adler's focus on the Western canon (in its narrowest sense of the term)? The interesting thing about this particular set of short stories is its relatively recent translation into English, and its focus on comedy. Calvino mentions The Steppes) while Bloom mentions several other stories, none of which appear in this collection. So there is more reading of Chekhov for me to do. Yet this collection is funny. I wondered whether Oscar Wilde had anything to say about Chekhov. Interestingly, it was Stephen Fry (who played Oscar Wilde in the 1997 movie Wilde) who puts the two together in an interesting way. Fry writes: Fry also says (and I quote at length): Having read almost all of Hemingway's short stories, Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunter's Album, and Guy de Maupassant's A Parisian Affair, I see similar assumptions of human nature, and indeed a similar philosophy and aesthetic with Chekhov picking up from where Turgenev (channelling Shakespeare) left off. Whether I could put this correctly in a theory-of-literature perspective is another thing, but certainly the brilliance is obvious. Some of Chekhov's stories could easily be adapted to the social life of Canberra, Australia's capital, and its concentration of public servants. Maybe less so now, but certainly in the 1990s and early 2000s. And stories of musicians, doctors, and emerging technologies (such as the telephone) retain their humour despite more than a century of time past. The test of good literary work is its ability to stretch beyond ephemera. Chekhov does that, and his sense of humour is not lost on a contemporary audience. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Assembled at last in a single volume is the first substantial collection of Chekhov''s comic stories. Widely regarded as an exclusively serious author, these stories reveal an unexpectedly humorous side to the intellectual Russian writer. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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