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Books by writers about other writers are not going to set the world on fire, and such is the case with Chekhov and Our Age. Nonetheless, this book a collection of essays by some important American writers, culled from talks given at the Chekhov and Contemporary Writing Festival at Cornell University in 197778, does ignite interest. Besides the Eudora Welty piece, "Reality in Chekhov's Stories," which is direct, unassuming and light-handed in its analysis (the opposite of Walker Percy's plodding "Novelist as Diagnostician of the Modern Malaise"), and Howard Moss' rigorous and adroit handling of the play "The Three Sisters," the essay that offered the most enjoyment wasJohn Cheever's "The Melancholy of Distance," a travelogue of a trip to Russia. It is the most Chekhovian piece in the collection, perhaps unintentionally. When Cheever visited Chekhov's house in Yalta, he found it depressing, and that, I think, would have pleased Chekhov more than any other insight or observation contained in Chekhov and Our Age. -- From Independent Publisher
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- PublisherCenter for Intl Studies
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0867310812
- ISBN 13 9780867310818
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
- EditorMcConkey James
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Chekhov and Our Age: Responses to Chekhov by American Writers and Scholars
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Center for International Studies, 1985
ISBN 10: 0867310812
ISBN 13: 9780867310818
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