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Article: ARTICLE: Chekhov in Urdu.
- Article from:
- The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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By: M. Abul Fazl September 28 (THE NATION): Anton Chekhov has special importance for us, as our first short stories, in the early part of the last century, were inspired by him. He had, himself, some doubts about his place in Russian literature, wondering where he would stand in comparison with his great forerunners like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev. He does not seem to have recognised that, being the first great bourgeois writer in that literature, he did not have to stand in relation to them in a traditional sort of way. He was the founder of a new phase in it. The National Academy of Performing Arts has done well to stage his "Seagull" in the Art Council in Karachi. ...