What you will find are novels rooted in this world, presenting the dignity of people struggling to make sense of it and in one way or another to change it. The Seven Stories fiction list began with Nelson Algren stories, with titles like "The Face on the Barroom Floor" and "The Lightless Room." These are not exactly beach reads, nor are the books you'll find below. And in the more familiarly Chekhovian "Autumn," an alcoholic landowner fallen low and a peasant from his village meet far from home in a sad and haunting reunion.ĥ0% Off Our Dark Fiction for Sunny Days Reading List In "How I Came to be Lawfully Wed," a couple reminisces about the day they vowed to resist their parents' plans that they should marry.
MOVING DOCK THEATRE ANTON CHECKOV BOOK CLUB SERIES
Here is "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," written as a series of telegrams, beginning with "Have been drinking to Sarah's health all week! Enchanting! She actually dies standing up!" In "Confession," a thirty-nine year old bachelor recounts some of the fifteen times chance foiled his marriage plans. Emphasizing impressions and the juxtaposition of incongruent elements, instead of the straight narrative his readers were used to, these stories upturned many of the assumptions of storytelling of the period. Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a keen modernist. In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s, when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty and innovative. Peter Constantine's historic new collection presents 38 new stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master. The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new Anton Chekhov. Winner of the American Literary Translator Association's National Translation Award
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