About Love and Other Stories - Oxford World´s Classics
About Love and Other Stories - Oxford World´s Classics Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov the greatest short story writer who has ever lived. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes…
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About Love and Other Stories - Oxford World´s Classics
Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov the greatest short story writer who has ever lived. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf.
Elusive and subtle, spare and unadorned, the stories in this selection are among Chekhov's most poignant and lyrical. Their themes--alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence--have as much relevance today as when they were written, and these superb new translations capture their modernist spirit. The book includes well-known pieces such as The Lady with the Little Dog, as well as less familiar work like Gusev, inspired by Chekhov's travels in the Far East, and Rothschild's Violin, a haunting and darkly humorous tale about death and loss.
The stories are arranged chronologically to show the evolution of Chekhov's art. Anglický text