Word: chekhovisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this collection of short stories, Author Maugham has selected the 30 he thinks his best. In a Preface that was not written to be skipped, he gives his views on the art of the short story, pays his respects to the two masters of the trade, Maupassant and Chekhov. Maupassant, says Author Maugham, was his early model. "Maupassant's stories are good stories. The anecdote is interesting apart from the narration so that it would secure attention if it were told over the dinner-table; and that seems to me a very great merit indeed. ... I have little doubt that...
Though Guy de Maupassant still has more readers than the late great Anton Chekhov, the Russian's partisans are fiercer than the Frenchman's, still tell all comers that Chekhov is the best short-story writer that ever lived. Admirers either of Maupassant or Chekhov will find echoes of both in these 20 stories and sketches. Though one or two would look well in any wardrobe, most of these Russian shorts are made to hang on a Soviet peg. An "artist in uniform," as Critic Max Eastman calls Author Romanof (TIME, May 14), he usually points a Marxian...
...Worth Living (by Lennox Robinson; Harry Moses, producer) is a gibe, not at Life, but at those who ask the question. It stimulated Manhattan onlookers with a comparatively fresh idea and the story of the strange effect on an ordinary town of a repertory of grisly plays by Gorki, Chekhov and Strindberg. Thus Author Robinson has for his butts both the childish townspeople, who believe what they see on the stage, and the second-rate actors who lay open the dark places of the soul. In addition to these standard comic themes, he has tried to cash...
...France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Europe has read translations of Mitya's Love and The Village. But until U. S. Publisher Knopf brought out an English translation of Bunin's famed short story, "The Gentleman from San Francisco...
...Civic Repertory Theatre in Manhattan's out-of-the-way 14th Street. She has not been without kudos. In 1930 she produced Pulitzer Prizewinning Alison's House. As the years rolled by, intelligent folk who might go down to 14th Street twice a year to enjoy Chekhov or Ibsen, came to regard the Civic Repertory as complacently as they would the Public Library. But water is cherished when the well begins to run dry. There was considerable excitement among the theatre's many friends last week when suddenly, by a sink-or-swim gesture, the Civic Repertory...