Short stories
A
Chameleon The Death of a Government Clerk
sputter
Pushkin Prize in 1888
A Man in a Case
Ward No. 6
He also wrote drama
The Cherry Orchard
in
the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine on January 17th in the year 1860.
His grandfather used to be a serf
He
was the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf who had bought his freedom, that and that his sons, 19 years earlier.
His life & works
The house in Taganrog, Russia
Grandfather,
serf Father, owner of a grocer. He once said: "as a child, I don't have a childhood.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born
His realism
Chekhov’s
works create the effect of profound experience taking place beneath the surface in the ordinary lives of unexceptional people.
A warm-hearted writer
“We
shall find the peace. We shall hear the angels. We shall see the sky sparkled with diomonds.”
He lived an unhappy life in his childhood
Chekhov
spent his early years under the shadow of his father's religious fanaticism while working long hours in his store.
Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904)
Anton Chekhov
Russian
writer, who brought both the short story and the drama to new prominence in Russia and eventually in the Western world.
The Seagull
(1896)
Chekhov and Tolstoy
Chekhov and Olga, 19Taking
a cool, objective stance toward his characters, Chekhov conveys their inner lives and feelings indirectly, by suggestion rather than statement. His plots are usually simple, and the endings of both his stories and his plays tend toward openness rather than finality.