Ralph E. Matlaw (–1990)
Autor de Anton Chekhov's Short Stories [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1990-04-24
- Género
- male
- Lugares de residencia
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Educación
- PhD Harvard University 1954
- Ocupaciones
- Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature
Editor - Organizaciones
- University of Chicago
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The Brothers Karamazov: The Garnett Translation… por Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 stars for the first half, 3.5 stars for the second half, compromising with three. The first half was MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING and I could not make myself care about it, but once the crime happened it started getting interesting to me. There was a LOT that could have been edited out even in the more interesting second half, though.
Chekhov wrote concise stories that rivaled the very long, often ponderous, books of his time and place.
I only picked up Chekhov because Woody Allen is a fan, but my socks remained securely on my feet. One in an endless stream of works I appreciate for their innovation but which don't move me personally. Criticism notes that Chekhov “canonizes in literature, the ending without resolution.” He “parts from his hero at the moment his hero begins to reflect, or sink into reflection, about what he has experienced in the events that have been described.” I think I can spot this influence in some of Allen's more dramatic films.… (más)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, for a retrospective collection, I found this very patchy. My favourite parts of the collection were actually some of the shortest stories, in which Chekhov did a wonderful job of painting a vivid scene and one or two very real characters in just a couple of pages each time. Some of the longer stories convey a deep sense of pathos, but there were also a few that just didn't engage me emotionally at all.
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- #23,192
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- 4.4
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