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Quatre peces teatrals
Contents:
La gavina ;
L'oncle Vània ;
Tres germanes ;
El jardí dels cirerers
La gavina ;
L'oncle Vània ;
Tres germanes ;
El jardí dels cirerers
332 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 15, 2012
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About the author
Anton Chekhov
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(1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of 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." Because he objected that the paper conducted against Alfred Dreyfus, his friendship with Suvorin ended
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of 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." Because he objected that the paper conducted against Alfred Dreyfus, his friendship with Suvorin ended
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July 15, 2024
M'ha encantat! El primer cop que vaig veure una representació teatral d'una de les seves obres ("La Gavina") a la sala Villarroel em va agradar molt, per això, vaig comprar el llibre que recull les seves obres més destacades. El teatre rus sempre té alguna cosa (no sé ben bé el què) que m'atrapa!
Txékhov és molt bo i a mi em fascina. Si us agrada el teatre rus, aquest recull de peces teatrals us captivarà! 😉😍
Txékhov és molt bo i a mi em fascina. Si us agrada el teatre rus, aquest recull de peces teatrals us captivarà! 😉😍
August 3, 2021
Quines lectures més agradables! Recomano L'oncle Vània per sobre de les altres tres peces.
December 24, 2024
Llegir teatre no és fàcil, llegir-lo amb personatges amb noms/cognoms/sobrenoms russos fa que sovint hagis de revisar qui és cadascú. M'ha resultat interessant descobrir l'obra de Txèkhov però desgraciadament m'ha mancat poder veure'n les adaptacions teatrals. Espero poder-ho fer més endavant. Personatges solitaris, utòpics, perduts, desencisats...en un temps que mor i que està a punt de canviar.
June 19, 2022
Si n'hagués de destacar només una, per força seria Les tres germanes. Tan tendre i fràgil com les protagonistes de la peça.
December 25, 2025
"La humanitat va endavant perfeccionant les seves forces. Tot allò que ara li és inabastable, en algun moment es farà proper, intel·ligible, només s'ha de treballar, ajudar amb totes les forces aquells que busquen la veritat. Aquí al nostre país, a Rússia, de moment són molt pocs els que treballen. La gran majoria de la intel·lectualitat que jo conec, no busquen res, no fan res, i de moment són incapaços de treballar. Es diuen intel·lectuals, però tracten els criats, tracten els pagesos com si fossin animals, no saben estudiar, no llegeixen res seriosament, no fan absolutament res, de les ciències es limiten a parlar-ne, i d'art n'entenen molt poc. Tots són seriosos, tots fan cares de severitat, tots parlen només de coses transcendentals, filosofen, i mentrestant, davant dels ulls de tots, els obrers mengen lamentablement, dormen sense coixins, trenta o quaranta persones en una habitació; a tot arreu hi ha xinxes, pudor, humitat i brutícia moral... I, òbviament, les converses benèvoles només les tenim per distreure la vista de nosaltres mateixos i dels altres. Mostrin-me on tenim els jardins d'infants, aquests dels quals parlen tan i tan sovint, on són els gabinets de lectura? Només a les novel·les se'n parla, i en realitat no n'existeix ni un. Només hi ha brutícia, vulgaritat, barbàrie asiàtica... Em fan por les fesomies greus, i no m'agraden, defujo les converses serioses. Val més callar" (...) (297).
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