Chekhov makes you laugh and cry at the same time-the universal human condition and despair of how we treat each other.
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Counter-counter point: Chekhov was master. Dostoyevsky was a quasi-Dickens with a sickly fixation on the inherent pleasure of sin.
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I think doestoevsky is great too. Chekhov h/e captures humans being humans. end of cherry orchard made me sob and laugh. Amazing
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A good example of the anxiety of influence.
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Chekov is like a photographer whose pictures look like casual snapshots of real life, but are in fact elaborately staged.
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While Dostoevsky often set out to be didactic, he rarely succeeded, asking questions that transcended his own didactic intentions.
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1 of the best!
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Chekov's stories are jokes with the punchline left out - if you take a moment to figure it out, the effect is devastating.
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also it's easier, a lot easier to read and like Chekhov than Dostoevsky, because it's funny.
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Nabokov is to be taken seriously, not literallypic.twitter.com/FKSQ8nh33H
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