“In Russia itself, Chekhov’s drama fell out of fashion after the revolution, but it was later incorporated into the Soviet canon. The character of Lopakhin, for example, was reinvented as a hero of the new order, rising from a modest background to eventually possess the gentry’s estates...”
“One of the first non-Russians to praise Chekhov’s plays was George Bernard Shaw, who subtitled his Heartbreak House “A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes,” and pointed out similarities between the predicament of the British landed class and that of their Russian counterparts as depicted by Chekhov: “the same nice people, the same utter futility.”
https://bookstorecafe.gr/en/anton-chekhov/
Good post. Thank you.
Russian writers are tough to read. One hundred word sentences and such.
Chekhov, Gorky/Peshkov, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Gogol. Truly great literature of the human struggle.
Sam Clemens is much easier. :)