Anton Chekhov
Born 29 January 1860 · Died 15 July 1904
From Taganrog, Don Soviet Republic, Russia · Nationality: Russian Empire · Writes nonfiction
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Quotes
“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”
Act I “Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”
A Brief Human Anatomy 1883 “Good breeding doesn’t mean that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice when someone else does.”
The House with the Mezzanine 1896 “Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”
Ward No. 6 “Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
Мысль и красота, подобно урагану и волнам, не должны знать привычных, определенн
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Anton Chekhov in order
Books by Anton Chekhov in the order they were published, from Uncle Vanya (1897) to The Three Sisters (1901).
