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...CHERRY ORCHARD by ANTON CHEKHOV...
Selzer is hardly the first M.D. to ruminate about the scalpel. Rabelais, Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Celine, and more recently William Nolen have written moving accounts of their medical careers. But few have examined the surgical art with such fervor and concern. Some doctors deplore the body's limitations; Selzer celebrates them. "It is the flesh alone that counts," he begins. "In the recesses of the body I search for the philosopher's stone...
...Strehler is a familiar figure in Italian gossip magazines because of his stormy love affairs. Not that he has all that much time to himself. Last week, while La Scala and the Paris Opéra were proudly introducing his work to U.S. audiences, Strehler was in Paris rehearsing Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. He was too busy to come...
Lethal Dose. Chekhov's dictum about never showing a gun in the first act unless it is used in the third applies to poisoned pills as well. Jakub's lethal dose leads to a death that cries out to be interpreted as either an accidental murder or a murderous accident. Playing existential detective, Kundera shows how all the major characters are implicated. But despite some amusing farcical turns, the verdict is heavily weighted toward a formulation that amounts to a facile existential copout: we are all murderers...
...first great master of the new art of the uncanny. In The Telltale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, he made the horror story a respectable literary form. But only a handful of literary terrorists (Hawthorne, James, Chekhov, Gogol) wrote tales as eerily disturbing as Poe's. Only one (Franz Kafka) found the ladder to a deeper gallery of madness...