“THE MAN WHO IS SATISFIED” IN A.P. CHEKOV’S ARTISTIC WORLD: FROM “THE OFFICIAL’S DEATH” UP TO “NEW DRAMA”
Chekov’s artistic anthropology peculiarities are considered in this paper. The main problem of the essay is the problem of interaction and development of the epic and drama models of the writer’s world. The image of Chekhov’s drama hero having the character’s content similar with the epic hero of “The Man Who Is Satisfied” allows to speak about the extent of influence of the evolving models of the epic world created in the early satirical short stories by A.P. Chekov on the appearance of “new drama” as well as about the changing of the author’s personality conception that is in the features of the hero image content, his appraisals and ways of their expression.
Keywords: “new drama”, epos-influenced drama, the hero’s status, the author and hero in drama, “person”, “mask”
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Issue: 7, 2011
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: Comic Issues in Authors Models of Creativity
Pages: 112 — 117
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