tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6584071398538632083..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: this unknown land in the company of terrible peasants - Chekhov crosses the steppeAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-13912236294217025592016-06-15T13:41:29.309-05:002016-06-15T13:41:29.309-05:00Yes, more Chekhov, more, more. I have been readin...Yes, more Chekhov, more, more. I have been reading Chekhov every day for a while now. I will get tired of him eventually. Gonna finish those Garnetts.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-82730518066865283372016-06-15T13:25:26.611-05:002016-06-15T13:25:26.611-05:00My next stop in this satisfying tour of your posts...My next stop in this satisfying tour of your posts and your reading. Very selfish, using it as prompts to review my own old posts. This one--https://zhiv.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/chekhov-the-steppe/--is half-okay, but I always like yours better. Four years ago I wanted to read more Chekhov, and I still want to.zhivhttp://zhiv.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2595649382032731662016-05-20T11:23:16.431-05:002016-05-20T11:23:16.431-05:00It would seem highly likely that Chekhov would nev...It would seem highly likely that Chekhov would never write anything as good. I can see why he would think that, why that would not have been false modesty.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47477148326185207272016-05-20T10:57:39.330-05:002016-05-20T10:57:39.330-05:00"The Steppe" earned Chekhov the Pushkin ..."The Steppe" earned Chekhov the Pushkin Prize, of course. When you read the letters he wrote after the story was published, you can see how proud of it he was: "I will never write anything as good." He was also aware that the work lacks the usual drama and the typical sort of unity found in fiction, and he worried that readers wouldn't see that it was deliberate. A lot of the scenes retain the compression of Chekhov's short fiction; he was still working on how he should stretch out and relax into all that length. <br /><br />I like that comparison with a craftsman; I think it's spot on.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62132895963698191922016-05-20T08:19:04.084-05:002016-05-20T08:19:04.084-05:00The shortgrass prairie of the Great Plains, Willa ...The shortgrass prairie of the Great Plains, Willa Cather country, is a steppe. Different species filling the various ecological niches is all. Prairie chickens instead of corn crakes.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-39946377552882456362016-05-20T05:26:39.877-05:002016-05-20T05:26:39.877-05:00I read this seven and then about five years ago. ...I read this seven and then about five years ago. At the time I felt it conveyed the vast emptiness of the Russian steppes. It brought to my mind storied of the American prairie and the gothic like characters encountered in passage Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34596198675500483602016-05-19T19:46:58.465-05:002016-05-19T19:46:58.465-05:00It's a bit like the old meaning of "maste...It's a bit like the old meaning of "masterpiece" - to achieve the title of master, the journeyman creates one piece that shows off everything he can do.<br /><br />"Tone poem" is good, too. What a range of effects.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29393883745466286482016-05-19T17:52:17.628-05:002016-05-19T17:52:17.628-05:00"The Steppe" is an impressionistic tone ..."The Steppe" is an impressionistic tone poem, like <i>La Mer</i>. Absolutely a masterpiece. scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com