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...PERSONAL PAPERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV (235 pp.)-Introduction by Matthew Josephson-Lear...
...Gregor's mouth Novelist Blunden has put three stories, in the manner of Gogol, Chekhov and Dostoevsky respectively. Interspersed with these are chapters of action: Ivan at the front, stopping a Nazi light tank 25 kilometers from Moscow; his lieutenant, Kostia, dying in a hospital after a double amputation; Rachel's son, Karl, starving in a concentration camp to which he had been sent for remarking that Hitler's strategy was "cunning." Karl's hatred of the regime that imprisoned him hardens into conviction...
...Wait a Bit." In one of Chekhov's short stories, some city people, whom we may take as symbolic of the Western world, try to make friends with the peasants of a nearby village, only to be repulsed time after time. The last attempt is made by the mother of the family, Elena Ivanovna, who goes to the village with her little girl, and tries to have a heart-to-heart talk with the peasants. It is not successful. Here is what Chekhov tells...
...translator of Russian literature, widow of Essayist Edward Garnett, mother of Novelist David Garnett; in Edenbridge, England. Despite failing eyesight (she had to have the Russian texts read aloud), shy, scholarly Mrs. Garnett labored for 50 years over the prodigious task of translating the works of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the best of Tolstoy, much of Gogol. Her translations are regarded as among the best in their field, were largely responsible for the role Russian literature played in the transition from Victorian letters to 20th Century realism...
Theaters with their roofs blown off and their walls caved in are housing productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, O'Neill, Ibsen, Schiller, and a repertory of at least 40 Broadway plays. Productions are on an artistic level (in direction, acting, scenery, etc.) that, except for sheer lavishness, would shame a good deal of the stuff shown on Broadway. You can see a wider variety of good theater of all kinds in two months in Berlin than in two years on Broadway...