Аннотация: The Express Sketch about the "The Man in the Internet"
The Express Sketch about the "The Man in the Internet"
Chekhov went into the Internet.
They are not forgetting him! "William Boyd on Chekhov's marriage."
"The so-called"discussion"".
It's interesting to read about yourself sometimes. Sometimes there are new points of view. The same fact can get different values when placed in different contexts.
How did Chekhov go to Sakhalin island? Partially on the vehicles harnessed by horses. Partly by waterways. And not such a small role his book about his trip to Sakhalin played. The Great Siberian railway track was built relatively quickly and vigorously. And Russia without excess "okh !" and "akh !" has agreed with the peace treaty signed by Sergei Witte. And completed relatively painless the Russian-Japanese war. He made the heavy and difficult work. He worked for Russia, for Russian history. And he worked, in general, for free. Well, about such "trifles" as the practical Chekhov care about culture, about libraries, about village school, about roads, about his help to numerous suppliants not everyone and not always remembers.
And what?
Further in this text is a well-known data. Some details from the personal life of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper. Again, everything is well known.
All these details are drowning in the tragedy of the pre-war and pre-revolutionary era, in the personal heroism of Chekhov, who preserved personal human dignity in a hostile cultural environment, in a situation of constant lack of money, in the deadly disease. Perhaps, his creativity was attempt to improve the Russian society, to give him chance "to jump out" of that historical trap in which Russian society has appeared because of postponement of reforms, counting since December 14, 1825?
But, if these details of personal life "sink", they, apparently, need to be saved? How? It turns out that there is a letter in some "closed archives". Well, if the archives are "closed", there's something important in them. What saves all this filtered biographical matter from a spontaneous dropping down out of attention of fans of literature.
And what it? It is the interrupted Olga Knipper's pregnancy. This is her possible infidelity.
Even you don't know what to tell, having found these facts from the "closed" archives. First, all this is common knowledge. Secondly, all this is nothing in comparison with the Chekhov's personal heroism, and in comparison with the value of his work, and in comparison with the tragedy of that era, which slowly but surely became closer and closer (February 1917 and subsequent times).
"This a new information revelation is in detail stated in the forthcoming French edition (in December) in the big biography of Donald Reyfild "Anton Chekhov's Life" (1997)". (To understand this phrase there is neither desire, nor mood. A muddy sense!).
In short, some a nonsense. Some details from the fifth or seventh levels of events that may be mentioned in Chekhov's biography, but which do not have the potential of significance, the potential of influence in order to become the central emotional or substantive point of the biography.
Internet users read this text. The text is not a quite clear. Or this text needs to be understood so that Chekhov had shortcomings? They discuss. The dominating opinion is such: all this history with Olga Knipper's pregnancy - a circumstance insignificant. Dozens of opinions about the same thing. Well... The respect to Chekhov and his creativity?
Chekhov came out of the Internet and thought: "It is better to write than to read. No wonder I handed out all my books, sent them for a completing of public libraries. Among these books there were copies with an author's inscriptions". "No. Reading is also useful. In article "9 surprising facts about Anton Chekhov - facts about which won't tell you at school" there is point 7 " He not had a home library ".
"There's "The Man in the Case". Now there is also "The Man in the Internet", - Chekhov smiled.
October 18, 2018 21:39
Translation from Russian into English: October 21, 2018 09:05.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Экспресс-скетч о "Человеке в Интернете"".