468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisdell)
The History of Literature
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The Immediacy of Chekhov Stories
I know one of the things that's so striking about Chekhov is his efficiency and how quickly he's able to create a character or set up a story. That must be something that you especially appreciated as you were in the process of learning Russian yourself. How quickly he is that getting to the point. I thought it was a great pleasure when you're struggling with learning enough Russian but I start reading a Chekhov story and I had it in a few sentences. Somebody said that you could hear Chekhov smiling as he roped. You can feel the smile and you can hear the restrained laugh as he's writing. There's a kind of bubbling but the immediacy of
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