Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

Peter Constantine has been translating Anton Chekhov for over 20 years, bringing into English more than a hundred stories that are lesser-known, unknown, or untranslated. He has been asking himself, What is Chekhovian? We hear of Chekhovian situations, Chekhovian despair, Chekhovian resolutions. But there is much more to Chekhov’s work than the idea of something “dragging and hopelessly complicated."
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