Summary
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Stories, Short Stories, Novels
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a provincial writer, not a writer of big cities like Moscow or Petrograd. His characters are indifferent unfortunates, who may yearn for change, but in the end they get used to it and live according to Palan's laws. About his characters - whose lives slip imperceptibly through his fingers - he wrote rebelliously, brutally and satirically, sometimes, of course, tenderly and mercifully, letting them say what they want, regardless of whether what they say is important, stupid or funny. Chekhov was the first to abandon long descriptions of nature and landscape, the first to painstakingly work to condense his style, and the first to insist on the simplicity of language and syntax. He replaced a long and complicated sentence with a short and simple one, his vocabulary is intentionally poor - word combinations were almost everyday - and therefore it is even more amazing that he managed to create elegant literary metaphors and a wonderfully recognizable literary style.
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