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This collection of Chekhov's major and most well-known plays has to be one of my most valued possessions. Each story is unique, each plot has its own theme, the characters could undoubtedly have existed and not just been imagined. Chekhov's plays seem to have a strong effect on me, I could see mysel...
Reading, as opposed to seeing Chekhov is quite a strange experience because of his impressionistic technique - nothing is explained, everything is surface, the opposite of the great classic novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky which are all psychology. There are motifs, as in poetry, which emerge or sin...
I guess this book is okay if you want to learn more about pre-revolutionary Russia and the events that lead up to the two revolutions of 1917 (and to be honest with you, who wouldn't). Basically this book is about a period during the reign of Alexander and deals with the radical groups that were aro...
A great collection overall, even if not every translation is what I'd want (Constance Garnett, ick). So far, I've only read what I had to for class.Notes From the Underground: It seems that no one ever mentions how wickedly funny Notes is--I didn't just find it immensely awkward, fascinating, and af...
Read this for a Tolstoy and Dostoevsky class, and while it is very good, I think it would be even better had I not needed to read the whole thing in under a week. Though it's a short book, it is very dense, with a lot of detail and one-or-two-page long paragraphs, etc.All in all, the very un-Dostoev...
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