Longer Stories: Last Decade: Longer Stories from the Last Decade - Rilegato

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

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ISBN 10: 0679606637 ISBN 13: 9780679606635

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2000

Riassunto

Collects eleven stories depicting the greed, corruption, and other problems assailing Russian society in the author's later years.

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Recensione:

"'Chekhovian.' It's clear that this adjective had to be invented for the new voice Chekhov's genius breathed into the world--elusive, inconclusive, flickering; nuanced through an underlying disquiet, though never morbid or disgruntled; unerringly intuitive, catching out of the air vibrations, glittering motes, faint turnings of the heart, tendrils thinner than hairs, drift. But Chekhov's art is more than merely Chekhovian. It is dedicated to explicit and definitive portraiture and the muscular trajectory of whole lives. Each story, however allusive or broken-off, is nevertheless exhaustive--like the curve of a shard that implies not simply the form of the pitcher entire, but also the thirsts of its shattered civilization."
        --Cynthia Ozick

L'autore:

Among Shelby Foote's works are the novels Shiloh; Jordan County; September, September ; and the three-volume history The Civil War.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679606637
• ISBN 13: 9780679606635
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 611
• Redattore: Foote Shelby