Man in a case

A wonderful stylist, subtle psychologist, master of subtext, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov had a huge impact on the development of world literature. He was always interested in the most ordinary people in everyday affairs and worries, he talked about their life, dreams, hopes for the future without prophecy and moralizing, providing his readers with the right to independently draw conclusions. The stories and plays written in the last quarter of the 19th century still arouse interest all over the world, and prose writers and playwrights admit that it was Chekhov who discovered the unprecedented possibilities of the art of the word.
“Reading Chekhov, I laugh, rejoice, admire ... Here is the definition of talent” (L.N. Tolstoy).
“I sincerely advise you to look at Chekhov’s books more often ... in order to forget, to survive these fabulous dreams as they were conceived” (V.V. Nabokov).
“You can revere a lot of Tolstoy. Admire the grace of Pushkin. Appreciate the moral searches of Dostoevsky. Gogol"s humor. And so on. However, I want to be similar only to Chekhov ”(Sergey Dovlatov)