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Chekhovian, a. and n.|tʃɛˈkəʊvɪən|
Also Chekovian, Tchehovian.
[f. Chekhov (see below) + -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the work of the Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904).
B. n. A character in one of Chekhov's plays.
1921J. Agate Red Letter Nights (1944) 100 But these Tchehovians do nothing. 1925Bookman Oct. 174 There is nothing more Chekhovian, outside Chekhov, than Mr. Lytton Strachey's life of Cardinal Manning. 1927Observer 15 May 6 That specific Chekovian symbolism and ‘musical’ construction which makes his plays more like Maeterlinck's than like ‘real life’. 1943Scrutiny XI. 185 Everyone is frustrated: and it is that Tchehovian frustration which is the antithesis of tragedy. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin 42 She had had a dragging, hopelessly complicated, Chekhovian rather than Dostoevskian affair with a cripple. |