Characterization of Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov

Chekhov is part of a non-typical category of artists, because he did not believed in his genius, on the contrary, there are evidence that he believed that his work will not conquer time and posterity. Spectacular, just like Russia at the border between the 19th and 20th century, Chekhov was born the son of serfs in 1860 (Tsar Alexander will abolish serfdom in 1861) only to become a landlord 32 years later, and a neighbor of Prince Shakovskoi. He bought the Melikhovo estate (unconsciously imitating Tolstoy, the patriarch of Iasnaia Polyana), not far from Moscow, with 13 thousand rubles of which he has paid an advance of five thousand.

Chekhov is the true precursor of the theater of the absurd. Before the beckettian "waiting" there was the continuous "waiting" of the three sisters who never live for Moscow. Chekhov developed an aesthetic principle, according to which tragic and comic are not separated by an impassable wall but represent two sides of the same phenomenon of life, which can be viewed both in terms of tragedy and in terms of comedy.

Thesis statement

Gurov embodies the power of change that true love can have even on the most cynical characters. He is an island of hope in an ocean of turmoil represented by revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

The following paper will focus on one of the most characteristically types of work for Chekhov: “The Lady and the Pet Dog”. Our aim is to portrait the character of Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov, in the context of the story, extracting those elements that are characteristic for the period in which Chekhov wrote the story.

True love is a reason for everything, even deleting the laws of life. People's mistakes and weaknesses are part of life; and, without contradic...

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...ible state. As in the case of Shakespeare, the words cause multiple meanings, inducing unfettered states full of emotions (Nabokov, 12). Unexpected events form a logical but unpredictable flow that structures the Chekhovian existence.

The Art of the Chekhovian Language escapes from the personal intentions. Reality is neither embellished nor blackened, altered or "signified" through a restrictive conceptual vision.

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Benedetti, Jean, Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov, Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1998, Print

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich, The Lady with the Dog and Other Short Stories, Fairfield, 1st Library Society, 2005, Print

Nabokov, Vladimir, Anton Chekhov, in Lectures on Russian Literature, Harvest Books, 1981 Print

Styan, John Louis, Modern Drama in Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Print