![]() He represents the spirit and the fate of Chekhov in the age of Stalin.īulgakov's eclipse, like that of most writers suppressed along with him, has of course always been relative. Bulgakov started practicing medicine during World War I, began to write after the October Revolution, reached the crest of his fame in the 20's and died on the eve of World War II, an un-person to the extent of not even rating an obituary notice in the Soviet press. ![]() Chekhov's world was that of 19th-century Russia he died before the fall of Port Arthur. For their deeper kinship rests mainly on a skeptical humanism and compassionate irony which, though common to both, are inevitably shaped and scarred by their respective times. ![]() Beyond these intriguing if surface parallels loom the essential points of contact touching upon their creative work, and here the evidence is more complex. ![]()
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