March 1, 2002

Why I Hate Chekhov

By MAURICE R. BERUBE

I never thought that I would hate Chekhov. After all, I enjoyed a Russian film of his play Uncle Vanya that I saw 30 years ago. And one of my favorite authors in college was Dostoevsky. So dark Russian literature was not foreboding to me.

But that all changed when I decided, as I approached my seventh decade, to return to my first love -- writing literature. I had nothing to lose. Having written 10 scholarly monographs and a respectable number of articles published in academic and

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