Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."
If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow.
Liubov Andreevna: Are you still a student? Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
I cannon off the cushion! I pot into the middle pocket.