| | 1 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Personal Recollections of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [As a narrative of the visit of the best known of Russian short
story
writers to another regarded as still greater, the following article has an
especial interest. Maxim Gorky has long been popular in this country, and
his imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to overthrow the Government
has recently brought him into greater prominence. Chekhov's stories are
now beginning to be translated into English, and since they are much wider
in scope and more varied in style than Gorky's they are likely to find
more readers among us. According to Tolstoy Chekhov is the founder of a
new school of literature, and his influence will be lastingly felt
throughout the world. He was born in 1860, the son of a serf who had
freed himself by his own ability. He was educated as a physician in the
University of Moscow, and began to write for college journals at the age
of nineteen. His death last year is deeply regretted, since he was at the
hight of his powers of production and his stories were becoming
somewhat more optimistic in tone. The illustrations accompanying this
article are all taken from caricatures originally published in Russian
newspapers and magazines. The translation is by Lizzie B.
Gorin.—EDITOR.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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