Word: chekhovisms
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...comfortable room, and slowly settles onto a couch, elevating his legs to minimize the effects of phlebitis. A portrait of a pretty dark-haired woman hangs on one wall; that is Joan Plowright, his third wife and companion of 21 years, painted when she was playing Masha in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which Olivier directed. Next to one of the windows is a huge picture of a young man dressed in Romeo's tights. He is impossibly handsome, with a long-lashed, almost feminine beauty. More striking still is the look in his eye: assured, confident...
...most recent are powerful condensations of modern life by Heinrich Boll, who describes a professional laugher producing merriment on cue for everyone but himself, and Paula Fox, whose News from the World describes a woman and her contaminated seaside village withering for lack of love. Between these terminals, Chekhov, Kafka, Mishima, Hemingway, Borges and a score of other master miniaturists show that brevity can be not merely the soul of wit, but the whole of it, and that almost all writing can benefit with pruning, from the short story to the rave review...
...Sawyer that is astonishingly faithful to the spirit and detail of the book. Says Director Stanislav Govorukhin, 46, who has treasured Twain's novel since he was Tom Sawyer's age: "I treated it with the same care that I would a work by Tolstoy or Chekhov...
...wrote Anton Chekhov to Solomon Rabinovich. The attraction of disciple and master seemed strange at the time: Rabinovich was an obscure Jew who wrote under the name Sholom Aleichem (literally, peace be unto you). Chekhov was a renowned and worldly physician-writer nearing the end of his life...
...grew more rambunctious in high school-"spraying my hair orange and getting thrown out of movie theaters"-and then, as an acting major at S.M.U., discovered classical drama. Reading Chekhov, Beckett, Shaw and King Lear, "the veils of the mind lifted," she says. "This was alive theater, someone bringing you in touch with a world you hadn't understood before." Once in Los Angeles, she began writing, "almost for pure sanity's sake. I'm like a child when I write, taking chances, never thinking in terms of logic or reviews. I just go with what...