tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4596668419231535270..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: It’s like living in Australia - Chekhov's IvanovAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-18958128162938694752016-04-02T20:15:33.934-05:002016-04-02T20:15:33.934-05:00Yes, good point. The writer will mess with the au...Yes, good point. The writer will mess with the audience expectations whatever they are. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-280079964395664322016-04-01T17:39:51.075-05:002016-04-01T17:39:51.075-05:00"Chekhov's gun" is a neat bit of sta..."Chekhov's gun" is a neat bit of stagecraft in itself. You wonder which gun will go off and when, so Chekhov can bamboozle you with the things you didn't expect to happen.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2890115467883394182016-04-01T13:40:32.305-05:002016-04-01T13:40:32.305-05:00Ivanov has some resemblance to Turgenev's A Mo...<i>Ivanov</i> has some resemblance to Turgenev's <i>A Month in the Country</i> (1855), which is clever, but no Chekhov.<br /><br />The whole "Chekhov's Gun" idea strikes me as some kind of joke on posterity.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-50194314407899442452016-04-01T13:14:01.963-05:002016-04-01T13:14:01.963-05:00"Ivanov" has always struck me as being v..."Ivanov" has always struck me as being very much in the vein of Turgenev. It's funny how Chekhov's plays work a lot of the same territory as Turgenev's novels. In "The Seagull," the writer character even complains about how he'll always be known as "clever, but no Turgenev."<br /><br />There are unfired guns all through Chekhov's stories! There are two or three guns in "The Cherry Orchard," his final play, that are never fired.<br /><br />What's amazing about Chekhov is how quickly he wrote. He revised carefully, but even that was done quickly. In a letter to Gorky, Chekhov advises him to spend six weeks watching plays, and then take a couple of weeks to write one of his own, as if it was all that simple.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34832475609755565852016-04-01T13:00:50.791-05:002016-04-01T13:00:50.791-05:00I had heard that this first play was a little more...I had heard that this first play was a little more "stagey" than the later ones, so I was not expecting the boredom theme to be present. But it is just as strong as in <i>Uncle Vanya</i>.<br /><br />It is not boring, quite the opposite. Little changes and minor events becomes highly interesting. I become like one of Chekhov's characters.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64638570457014138742016-04-01T12:46:35.305-05:002016-04-01T12:46:35.305-05:00Boredom is so often a motif in Chekhov. Reading ab...Boredom is so often a motif in Chekhov. Reading about boredom in Chekhov, however, as something of a paradox, is not boring. And that is the sum and substance of my Chekhovian observations for today. But I should further note that I have just downloaded a Kindle collection of Chekhov. So, I have you to thank for giving me the nudge in that direction. Now, I think I will read a bit about boredom among Chekhov's creations. Onward!RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.com