Chekhov Wikispaces契诃夫 wiki空间.ppt

{ { { { { { Chekhov Anton Pavlovich ChekhovJanuary 29, 1860-July 15, 1904 Grandfather was a serf; bought freedom for the family even before the Emancipation of 1861 Father was a grocer Received an Orthodox religious education; later lost his faith Family… Reinvented the short story opened up areas of life not yet explored by Russian literature One of those who reinvented drama (in addition to Ibsen, Strindberg, and others) at the end of the 1800s-beginning of 1900s Literary accomplishments… Studied medicine; was a doctor who once said his real commitment was to medicine, while literature was a mistress he would abandon. With encouragement from Grigorovich devoted himself to writing and won the prestigious Pushkin prize in 1888 Career… “The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else….My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take.” Chekhov: 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature 2. total objectivity 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects 4. extreme brevity 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype 6. compassion Chekhov’s 6 principles that make for a good story ?Up until Chekhov, all short stories, virtually without exception, were event-plot ones. In these stories the skeleton of plot is all important, the narrative is shaped, classically, to have a beginning, middle and end. Chekhov’s Revolutionary technique: he did not abandon plot, but made the plot of his stories like the plot of our lives: random, mysterious, run-of-the-mill, abrupt, chaotic, fiercely cruel, meaningless. The Event-plot story… Chekhov is the father of the modern s