/lit/ - Literature

Chekhov is arguably the greatest short story writer of all time. He is in my opinion.

Anyway, that's not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is how Chekhov's stories are perhaps the greatest and most realistic embodiment of 19th century Russian culture--only matched by Gogol's Dead Souls (yes yes I know, Gogol came before Chekhov).

Anyway, I'm kinda of sad there hasn't been a short story writer in the west that has so well captured the "ethnic essence" of their corresponding cultures/ethno-identity.

Or perhaps I'm wrong?

Please, share what authors you think might constitute to be as proficient as encapsulating culture and ethnicity in short story writing as Chekhov.

>>4655960
>Come up with some actual arguments if you want anyone to take you seriously, kid.
I did here:>>4655744
I've astutely shown (by quoting from the actual text) that she has terrible control of commas, verbose to the point of breaking the flow of the reader (such as with the inclusion of an extra unecessary "of"), and that her syntax (and arrangement of concepts and ideas, and logical flow) is awful.

I've even taken the step to improving her writing, and vastly improving it.

You just sit back and hurl insults at me, claim that her prose is "too complex for me to understand" and "period sensitive", yet I've proven quite the contrary, I have a perfect understanding of her text and I've demonstrated it by literally improving her prose by making it flow better, correcting comma usage, and improving the syntax.

I have a feeling that you're quite below my league when debating, use of logic, and intelligence is concerned--as you've so aptly demonstrated for me.

Till next.

P.S, you keep referring to me as "kid". Gentle reminder, wisdom is not determined by age.

How does one exercise their self-discipline?