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About Chekhov: The Unfinished Symphony
Seven years after the death of Anton Chekhov, his sister, Maria, wrote to a friend, "You asked for someone who could write a biography of my deceased brother. If you recall, I recommended Iv. Al. Bunin...No one writes better than he; he knew and understood my deceased brother very well; he can go about the endeavor objectively...I repeat, I would very much like this b...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
June 5th 2007
by Northwestern University Press
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things I want to remember:
Chekhov not being able to choose which pants to wear to see Tolstoy
Chekhov wanting mousetraps as a present so he could catch mice and set them free
Chekhov's watch saying 'the lonely person sees a desert everywhere'
Chekhov changing the conversation from his writing to herrings & his use of field glasses
Bunin's rage at Gippius, Gorky etc for their misrepresentations of Chekhov
Bunin basically being like, MY BEST FRIEND CHEKHOV.
Chekhov not being able to choose which pants to wear to see Tolstoy
Chekhov wanting mousetraps as a present so he could catch mice and set them free
Chekhov's watch saying 'the lonely person sees a desert everywhere'
Chekhov changing the conversation from his writing to herrings & his use of field glasses
Bunin's rage at Gippius, Gorky etc for their misrepresentations of Chekhov
Bunin basically being like, MY BEST FRIEND CHEKHOV.
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Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, born October 22, 1870 in Voronezh, was the first Russian author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933). The award cited "the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing."
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