Word: chekhovian
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...Bernard Malamud. Without the allegorical overtones of the author's previous books (The Natural, The Assistant), this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college sometimes trips on its own realism, is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...
...Bernard Malamud. Without the allegorical overtones of the author's previous books (The Natural, The Assistant), this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college sometimes trips on its own realism, is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...
...author, known as a skilled allegorist for his previous novels (The Natural, The Assistant), is less successful as a writer of realistic fiction, but this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...
...Malamud remains as expert as before in his persuasive alternations of farce and sadness, the tender Chekhovian qualities that have marked all his work. His hero, Levin, is a born victim of circumstance: if he holds a baby on his lap, it wets him; if he holds a class spellbound, it is only because his fly is open. He is a man with a rage for justice, and an inner compulsion to keep "on paying for being alive." But in all his straining leaps toward the highest goals, he is scarcely capable of getting his two left feet...
...brand of gallantry -the gallantry of being their rather idiosyncratic selves. Giorgio's tawny-haired sister Elena, with whom he is spiritually close to incest, drives motorboats and herself at a swamping pace. Brother Giuliano plays cards from morning to night and takes cute tricks to bed. With Chekhovian unconcern, Papa Partibon paints while the roof is sold over his head for mortgages...