Platonov

By: Anton Chekhov, Richard Nelson (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)

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Paperback | 21 February 2025

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216 Pages

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A complete unabridged translation of Chekhov's early play, discovered years after his death. PLATONOV (also known as FATHERLESSNESS and A PLAY WITHOUT A TITLE) is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov, written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre. Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923. This new version is a collaboration between Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy, prize-winning translators of Russian literature, and Tony Award-winner Richard Nelson.

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"Fate played on me something I never could have imagined at the time when you saw me as a second Byron and I saw myself as a future minister of some special affairs and a Christopher Columbus. I'm a school teacher ... and nothing more." â -â Mikhail Platonov, ACT ONE, PLATONOV

"If anyone still lives who needs proof of Chekhov's genius, let him go and see PLATONOV. This is the master's first play, composed when he was twenty-one. It makes a singular impression; as if a Russian novel of country life had been dramatized by Georges Feydeau and then handed over to Chekhov for total rewriting." â -â Kenneth Tynan

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