After a year of reading the short fiction of Anton Chekhov, I started writing brief essays about some of the stories. The project ballooned, resulting in new web site, “A Chekhov Circus.”
The site includes a brief essay for each of the 201 stories in Constance Garnett’s magnificent 13-volume translation of the tales of Chekhov. Some of the essays are just a quick (opinionated) synopsis. Others reflect on Chekhov’s life and family, the social changes sweeping across Russia in the second half of the 19th century, the eerie parallels of Czarist Russia with modern-day America, and much more.
Every essay includes recommendations for complementary Chekhov tales. And each essay is tagged so readers can sort stories by theme, by publication year, and other categories.
If you come across the site, I hope you like it!
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