this might be interesting for peeps to read. not specifically looking at
any one piece of chekhov's but even looking at some of the snippets from
his notebooks are intriguing--to see what sorts of things struck him.
every little bit helps in understanding what he was about...
http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/wood_on_chekhov.htm
-jessie
The soldier forgets that he is in Chekhov’s story because he has become so involved in his own. His own story is bottomless, and yearns to last all night; Chekhov’s story ‘takes only a minute to tell’. In Chekhov’s world, our inner lives run at their own speed.
ReplyDeleteThis is a little excerpt from the end of this essay. The writer is referring to a soldier in the short story called "The Kiss." I guess I found this fascinating because I think it is what makes realism so exciting to me. I love that the character's are unaware of the story. The awareness i guess would come off as theatrical of cheesy. It's a convention they use in comedy a lot. They will use plot related jokes, which to me is funny but kinda a cop out. The most captivating character work I have seen always seems bottomless. It's as if I have just seen a glimpse into this persons life, but there is so much left untold. In order to build that I think it's important to just get really specific with all aspects of a persons life. What has made them the way they are? Why do they want what they want? Filling out all the details and making them live is key to creating these bottomless characters. Is there anything else one could do?