Anton chekhov short stories5/17/2023 ![]() “H’m… very well, then, ask her into the study.” “She has been here five times already, Pavel Vassilyevitch. Hearing of the lady, he frowned and said: Pavel Vassilyevitch had only just finished lunch. “Pavel Vassilyevitch, there’s a lady here, asking for you,” Luka announced. ![]() And they are not all as successful or boastful as young Chekhov-just look at Madam Murashkin… ![]() Shakespeare wrote: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” and while that is accurate, some players who appear on the world’s stage are also playwrights. Leo Tolstoy loved this story, and even told it countless times and “always laughed wholeheartedly.” The year Chekhov wrote this story he also wrote his first big play, “Ivanov,” establishing himself as a serious playwright. This text was written by young Chekhov, a brilliant feuilletonist, the author of the “Vaudevilles” (his short plays), and of short stories that won him great acclaim. ![]() Chekhonte, one of his many pseudonyms (‘Man without a Spleen,’ ‘Prosaic Poet,’ ‘My Brother’s Brother’ and ‘A Doctor without Patients’-Chekhov being a certified physician, of course). The short comic piece “A Play” was first published in 1887 in the periodical “Oskolki” (‘Fragments’), under A. By her name alone it is clear what the listener feels during the reading. Madam Murashkin (murashki being the Russian word for ‘shivers’) is a budding playwright who wishes to read her new play to Pavel Vassilyevitch, a renowned author, seeking his critique. ![]()
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