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Changing the Image of a Russian Master
FRYDMAN, ANNE
Changing the Image of a Russian Master A New Life of Anton Chekhov By Ronald Hingley Knopf. 352 pp. $12.50 Reviewed by Anne Frydman Instructor of Humanities, Columbia University In his...
...A Marriageable Girl," canonized in Soviet criticism, follows the transformation of a young woman...
...Elsewhere, Hingley's arguable judgments intrude...
...Petersburg housewife and multiple mother" is a fair sample of his style...
...He began by turning out humorous sketches for daily tabloids in order to help support his family...
...His language is often arch and his choice of words jarring...
...Chekhov's artistry extended to his titles, and it is a disservice not to translate his own words literally so long as they are comprehensible...
...They omitted his occasional obscenities, several examples of which are attractively reprinted in Russian in the Preface to A New Life of Anton Chekhov...
...Why does "The Teac