Word: chekhovisms
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Katherine Anne Porter has consistently been admired for what she is not. Since 1923, when her first story was published, the critics have solemnly compared her to Chekhov, Turgenev, George Eliot; and since 1962, when Ship of Fools became an international bestseller, the book-club brigade has revered the white-haired lady from Texas as the Grandma Moses of literature. Both judgments are wide of the mark...
...Svevo's The Confessions of Zeno, is currently reading or rereading Coriolanus, Anthony Powell, Stendhal, Hart Crane and T. S. Eliot. His schedule is modest compared with the ten-foot shelf that French Critic Claude Roy claims to have taken on his vacation: all of Henry James, Proust, Chekhov and Henri Michaux; three volumes of Sartre's Situations; Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky, in three volumes; four F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and two by Hemingway; six art books; Nan Hoa Tchen King by Tchouang Tzeu; Leopardi's Zibaldone; and Alice in Wonderland...
...third play, Chekhov's Swan Song, would in itself be enough reason for going to the Ex tonight. Like much of Chekhov's work, the play is concerned with the conflict of old and new, the present and what has gone before. This conflict is centered in the figure of the old actor, who is superbly portrayed by Julian Lopez Morrillas One moment he is the aged, broken, drunk old man; the next, one sees his genious flash through as he monologues excerpts from Antony's funeral oration and Lear's storm speech. Eyes blazing, he momentarily recaptures the brilliance...
...Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a very thin crust of tension spread over a layer of boredom. A retired professor and his young wife come to their country estate they draw to their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...
...cast of almost stationary people, Baker is a kind of perpetual-motion machine gesturing grimacing, smiling, patting Marina on the back, glowing in his drunkenness and grinning in his sobriety. Much of his business is taken from Chekhov's stage directions; much of it he and director John Black have added, unobtrusively and effectively...