Chekhov in the works of others

[Melissa Smith]

Look for a dacha in contemporary Russian dramatury, and I wager you'll 
find a Checkhov reference. Along eith Mukhina, Yelena Isaeva, for 
instance, in "Apricot Orchard". The previous generations most prominent 
exemplars, I believe, would be Victor Slaikin's "Cerco" and Liudmila 
Petrushevskaya's "Tri devushki v glubom." And any time a character from 
the provinces yearns for Moscow, "Three Sisters isn't far behind it.

On a different note, I heard African-American scholar Cornel West 
sp0eak about Chekhov's importance to him as a writer on a recent "Bill 
Moyer's Journal.

Melissa Smith  

Lara Ravitch wrote:


>Olga Mukhina  also clearly references, re-works and plays with 
Chekhovian themes in her plays Таня-Таня and Ю.
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>Lara "Лара" Ravitch
>Dean, Lesnoe Ozero
>Concordia Russian Language Village
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
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Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Tel: (330)941-3462

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