“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.” — Mary Mann Copy Share Image
Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising serfs (which sounds like the seas)? I thought he wrote of the kinds of things that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
