Chekhov Variation

Physician writers: Anton Chekhov.

Pursuing medicine means to a large extent pursuing medical science. A medical career also includes a substantial amount of writing, particularly for those who enter academia. Apart from science, during their professional lifetimes medical people are exposed to thousands of life stories, into which they, by necessity, intrude. Dealing with individual illnesses, and thus patients’ bodies, brings ...

Listening to Chekhov: narrative approaches to depression.

Mania Sakhalinosa: an episode in the life of Dr. Anton Chekhov.

ALTHOUGH CHEKHov is universally acknowledged as a short story writer and dramatist of genius, the fact that he was a practising doctor for a large part of his life and was deeply committed to the progress of scientific medicine is often forgotten. An attentive reader of the stories, however, must be aware how often patients and their doctors are portrayed therein. At times the conflicting claim...

Chekhov as a Founder of the Comedy of a New Type

In her article "Chekhov as a Founder of the Comedy of a New Type" Vera Zubarev discusses Chekhov's innovations within the framework of general systems thinking and the predispositioning theory. To this end, the notion of the positional style is used as a subject of systems analysis. Zubarev postulates that Chekhov's innovative style signified a new era of thinking now known as systems thinking....

the shadow of anton chekhov on contemporary dramatic literature of iran (on the basis of plays written by anton chekhov and akbar radi)

anton pavlovich chekhov is a russian writer and playwright with considerable contribution in the expansion of world literature including iran. many theater critics and directors believe that akbar radi was influenced by anton chekhov's works, and by using chekhov's achievements and expanding them he has written his own unique and noble plays. this study investigates general properties...