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Chekhov
Noyes, G. R. | October 12, 1918 issue

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There remain a few writers who seem deliberately to use their literary gifts, sometimes of a high order, to invest with interest only the baffling, disheartening daily happenings that in one's more discouraged moments seem the whole of existence. Such a writer is preeminently Anton Chekhov, the greatest Russian writer of short stories and the man who has described Russian futility with more unsparing skill than any other man of letters. Russian critics explain that Chekhov portrays a certain stage in the development of Russian society. He dealt with the decay of the old society, showing men and women occupied with purely personal interests, and those of the pettiest sort.

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CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904; AUTHORS; SHORT stories; SOCIAL systems; BOOKS; FICTION
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