I would like to know about Anton Chekov - The great Russian Writer- Dramatist.Plz throw some light on his work

Question

The island of Sakhalin - is the best book he has ever written.He went there and help prisoners.The Lady is the last book written by him three years before he died.The story is like a requiem in his Life.

Answer 1

Chekov's gift was to take the most mundane people, and situations, and turn them into gripping dramas and compelling stories. He achieved this largely because his attention to detail gave such a precise glimpse of the background against which his characters moved, and because he invested his characters with such believable characteristics. They quickly became real people, which was truly the mark of his genius as the things he wrote about were so foreign (no pun intended) to nonRussian readers, yet he managed to make the reader understand the significance of these events without going into long, dry dissertations. Largely, we empathized with his characters, even though we didn't always understand why they reacted as they did.
Which of his works have you read, and which did you enjoy the most?

Answer 2

I like to read Chekhov. Both his plays and short stories are wonderful.
His work as a playwright is very important in the development of the genre, I consider him the ancestor of the moderns. The plot of his plays is not actually the story that is animated in front of us, but rather the one that takes place inside the characters. His dialogs are in fact monologues, the characters are tragically alone even if somebody is sitting next to them. The performances I have seen so far were great experience.

His short stories imply irony as they present tragic and serious (or a mock tragic and serious) matters trough comedy. You should read The Death of a Government Clerk as a beginning.

Answer 3

Here's a good page of information:
http://www.eldritchpress.org/ac/yr/Anton_Chekhov.html

Answer 4

wow are my arms tired from throwing all that damn light, light is not light, its heavy, so throwing heavy light is what im talking about thats pretty heavy,