Word: chekhovian
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...created by many years of fear and hatred. Describing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a tragic clash between right and right, I maintain that we do not want a Shakespearean conclusion, with poetic justice hovering over a stage littered with dead bodies. We may now be nearing a typical Chekhovian conclusion for the tragedy: the players disillusioned and worried, but alive...
...close of his speech, Oz said that tragedies can be resolved in either of two ways: in a "Shakespearian manner," where the stage is strewn with dead bodies, and "maybe there is some justice prevailing from up above," or, in a "Chekhovian manner," where the characters are "shattered and disillusioned, but alive...
Friel has been much influenced by Chekhov. Aristocrats was unabashedly Chekhovian, a sort of Ballybeg version of The Cherry Orchard. But Chekhov never attempted anything like Lughnasa's narrative complexity, and never wrote so richly about the unprivileged. This time there are no echoes of homage in Friel's work, just authentic originality...
...this sounds like the umpteenth rewrite of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the best defense Brian Friel might offer for his superb play, now off-Broadway, is that his characters seem Chekhovian only because they are so candid and self-aware. Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled...
...confusion is understandable. While "Errand" is full of Chekhovian touches--surprises delivered in a complete prose deadpan, methodically thorough detail, small paradoxical moments that reveal character--the touches sound contrived and unnatural in Carver's hands. If "Errand" were akin to Harold Bloom's apophrades, a return from the dead of an old literary influence, the styles of Carver and Chekhov would merge without seams. Instead they...