LINKTV Deutsche Welle Journal February 19, 2013
This ability to observe in an impartial way is characteristic of an important russian playwright of the 19th century, anton chehkov, a physician who wrote short stories and plays, which depicted people as neither heroic nor foolish. Indeed, chehkovs plays seemed plotless to viewers expecting a conventional, single action. Instead, emphasis is on people and atmosphere in many small stories. In his plays as in real life, theres not necessarily one outstanding moment of supreme significance, nothing compared, for instance, to the moment when the traditional hero learns some overwhelming truth abo...