Word: chekhovisms
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...attraction, to lovers of literary underdogs, of being largely unread. Alfred Kazin, a critic of high reputation, has called its author "a fine artist," and Edmund Wilson, whose stature is even more Olympian, wrote last year that Callaghan's work "may be mentioned without absurdity in association with Chekhov's and Turgenev...
Readers aware of these critical benisons will be baffled long before they finish Passion. Could Kazin have been joking? Is it possible that Wilson does not care much for Chekhov and Turgenev...
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but in this earnest, dull book, Callaghan proves only that Sam is a sod and the girl is a tedious alky. Chekhov, anyone...
...century was Russia's Renaissance. Until then, Russian literature had been of little consequence, but 19th century Russia showered on the world a wealth of literary greatness such as few centuries anywhere have equaled and none have surpassed. In an epoch that produced Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov, it is not surprising that some valuable authors were virtually overlooked by the West. One of these, almost unknown to American readers, is Nikolai Leskov (1831-95), whose output of novels, stories, memoirs and articles filled a posthumous edition of 36 volumes...
...shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russian...