Anton Chekhov In The World Literature

Anton Chekhov was an exceptional Russian playwright, masterpieces of which discovered their reputation on the planet-identified stages. Comedy and tragedy are normally mixed up in every single quick story by the author, even though wit humor challenges minds of his committed readers. Surely, Russian men and women perceive Chekhov's emotional spirit and irony with larger appreciation, laughing at stereotypes of day-to-day routine and traditional mores vital for their culture. In contrast, worldwide society reopened Russians from a new point view, drastically presented by Chekhov's dramas and novels.

The particular interest in Chekhov's plays was expressed by George Bernard Shaw, a pillar playwright of English drama in 1920s. He managed to create a play "Heartbreak Residence" 1919 that followed the manner of his Russian colleague. In special, Shaw acknowledged it was a fantasy written in Russian manner on normally English subjects. Later, plays by Anton Chekhov have been very evaluated and performed in France in 1960-70s, encouraging the most profitable theatrical directors at the time. In Germany Chekhov attained reputation soon after Globe War II. In 1950s brief stories by Anton Chekhov became broadly staged in China, Japan and Korea, the closest neighbors of Soviet Union on East. It is also intriguing to know that in spite of the Cold War he was also recognized in the United States. Specially, the largest Chekhov's admirer was Tennessee Williams, whose favourite play was "the Seagull". American drama writer dreamt of staging this quick story in personal handling.

Lots of planet-renowned authors known Anton Chekhov inspired them to create the most momentous operates and taught a lot of literary tricks. Amongst them a single can recognize W. Somerset Maugham, John Galsworthy, Elsa Triolet. Thomas Mann committed an essay "The Word on Chekhov" to Russian writer and his part in the German literature of the 20th century.

Chekhov's stories enhanced an imitation in European and American literature. It is attainable to refer to Mansfield in England, Anderson in America, whose functions naturally include Chekhov effects. Even so, they are characterized by superficial assimilation of Chekhov's themes. They lack breadth of the social phenomena, depth of penetration into its essence, criticism of the parasitic culture of landlords and capitalists, which are natural for Chekhov, a representative of Russian artistic realism. Chekhov, like other wonderful Russian writers, is unattainable model of social satire for the bourgeois European literature, and for progressive writers he is an instance of the superiority of democratic trends in crucial realism. All in all, Anton Chekhov could pose only as an image of wonderful social irony and satire, so unreachable for other individuals than Russians.