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My favorite thing about Chekhov so far is how he was a comedic sketch of a writer, oozing with talent, and he had to be screamed at by the guy who discovered Dostoevsky, in order to start taking his stories seriously after writing probably two hundred(?) lil three page sketches of goofy, tossed-off, ironic slapstick
— Jun 09, 2024 07:54AM
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June 9th — The House with the Mezzanine
‘One of the only stories I’ve read by him with any ‘political’ leanings. The Zemstro peasant liberal movement vs. what the landscape artist claims to hold dear and how it brushes up against communist thinkings … but you get the sense he’s just saying shit to say shit to argue with the hot lady he wants to get to convince to quit the organizing and marry him.’
— Jun 09, 2024 06:47PM
‘One of the only stories I’ve read by him with any ‘political’ leanings. The Zemstro peasant liberal movement vs. what the landscape artist claims to hold dear and how it brushes up against communist thinkings … but you get the sense he’s just saying shit to say shit to argue with the hot lady he wants to get to convince to quit the organizing and marry him.’
Bud Smith
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Jumping around in this book, and a different collection called Fifty-Two stories (also by same translators), and a third paperback collection, Forty Stories, and the Project Guggenheim ebook of ALL the collected stories and novellas of Chekhov. I’ve decided to read thirty of what (from asking around) seem to be his best stories, to talk about them with friends.
— Jun 09, 2024 06:45AM
