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Антон Чехов

  • Anton Čechov
  • Антон Павлович Чехов
  • Anton Tschechow
  • Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow
  • Anton Tchekhov
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Чехов, Антон
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Date of birth
1860-01-29
Place of birth
Taganrog
Date of death
1904-07-15
Place of death
Badenweiler

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text." The plays that Chekhov wrote were not complex, but easy to follow, and created a somewhat haunting atmosphere for the audience.

Chekhov began writing stories to earn money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations that influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.

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Russian playwright and short-story writer.

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Der Kirschgarten (beige cover)Paperback?1970
Der Kirschgarten (yellow cover)Paperback3-15-007690-01994
Onkel Wanja: Szenen aus dem Landleben in vier AktenPaperback3-15-008738-41995
Drei Schwestern: Drama in vier AktenPaperback3-15-004264-X1984
Three SisterseBook?2021-04-07
The Duel (Anton Chekhov)eBook?2015-06-08
Short Fiction (Anton Chekhov)eBook?2014-05-25
Der Kirschgarten: Komödie in vier Akten (detebe)Paperback3-257-20083-82004
Œuvres, IHardcover97820701054961968-01-26
Œuvres, III : Récits 1892–1903Hardcover97820701062881971-01-27
Œuvres, II : Récits 1887–1892Hardcover97820701055021970-10-23
ПьесыPaperback?1982
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