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Material Type: | Fiction, Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Max Bollinger |
ISBN: | 9780956116550 0956116558 |
OCLC Number: | 1167877355 |
Language Note: | Translated from Russian. |
Notes: | Title from container. |
Performer(s): | Produced and read by Max Bollinger. |
Description: | 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. |
Responsibility: | Anton Chekhov. |
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Chekhov stories come to life
All the faults concerning my interaction with this work, are mine. I have trained...
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All the faults concerning my interaction with this work, are mine. I have trained myself to sit and read a book: it is an activity which absorbs one's main sensory organs, the eyes; and so, the World is closed out. With an audio book, such as this, one needs to block out all extraneous input and drink in the delightful atmosphere as the stories are beautifully read to one. The tracks are superbly interspersed with snatches of music by Tchaikovsky, which set the mood perfectly. It would be exceedingly simple to overdo the 'Russian-ness' of this disc but, the editor has judged the mood perfectly. I have now listened to it a few times and will certainly do so again (hopefully, many times). Enough about the style of the disc, what about the content? My youth coincided with the cold war and so, Russia has always seemed to be a mysterious place where the people are somehow different. These tales of nineteenth century Russia should therefore be totally alien. They are not, of course: Chekhov describes the human condition, it is inherently the same in Russia as in England, or where, and when, ever one happens to live. I suspect that if we do, eventually, find sentient life upon another planet, then they too would read, or listen to, these fables and nod their understanding. Ken Petersen (UK)
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