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Chekhovian

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Che·khov also Che·kov  (chkôf, -f, -v, chyf), Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904.
Russian writer whose dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and stories, including "A Dreary Story" (1889), concern the inability of humans to communicate with one another.
Che·khovi·an (ch-kv-n) adj.
Chekhovian, Chekovian [tʃɛˈkəʊvɪən]
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of or relating to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the Russian dramatist and short-story writer (1860-1904)


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Maslow's motives are understood to be genuine, a prerequisite of a Chekhovian rather than a Schnitzlerian take on him; yet since the symmetry of the novel demands that Vincent's take must be too, we must accept that on some level, he really believed what he said as a neo-Nazi.
Odd Fellows by Avakian, Tanya / Commonweal
There's nothing of this design, or of Zuber's costumes, to distract us from watching Mathias' splendid cast go about its Chekhovian business.
THIS 'CHERRY ORCHARD' MORE THAN RIPE FOR THE PICKING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The events themselves are compelling, obviously, but the power of the story, as with any fine fiction, is largely a product of its delivery--the controlled, evocative prose; the pacing and scenic choreography; the final Chekhovian move toward a certainty that, in the course of one well-wrought passage, is destroyed in favor of a stark, uncompromisingly complex realism.
Past due: Greg Bottoms on Damon Galgut by Bottoms, Greg / Artforum International
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