B. Akunin's" The Seagull " - "pure English murder"
The writer B. Akunin took the liberty of "finishing" Chekhov's play "The Seagull". B. Akunin, apparently, was inspired by several phrases in Chekhov's letter to E. M. Shavrova: "I finished the play <...> It didn't turn out so well", and his self-assessments in a letter to A. S. Suvorin:"He began it forte and ended it pianissimo, against all the rules of dramatic art. A novel was published. I am more dissatisfied than satisfied" (Chekhov A. P. Poln. sobr. soch. i pis'mov: V 30 t. M., 1986. Vol. 12. p. 357; further - only p.). The open ending of a literary work generally excites the reader's imagination, and he mentally creates virtual post-plot versions of the" ending "of" Eugene Onegin", "War and Peace", "Crimes and Punishments"," Ladies with a Dog "... B. Akunin broke away from his own creative ideas in order for the classic play to be "finished to the end". the end." Let's start with a quick reference. Boris Akunin is the literary pseudonym of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Foreign Literature", translator from Japanese and English, editor-in-chief of the twenty-volume "Anthology of Japanese Literature", author of the monograph "Writer and Suicide", as well as a series of detective novels about Erast Petrovich Fandorin, an official of special assignments under the Moscow Governor-General ("Azazel", "Turkish Gambit", "Leviathan", "Death of Achilles", "State Councilor"), other novels and novellas. In 2000, the Novy Mir magazine (No. 4) published his comedy in two acts, The Seagull, and almost simultaneously a book appeared that combines two "Seagulls" - A. Chekhov / B. Akunin. "Chaika". Comedy and its sequel (Jerusalem-Moscow, 2000). The reader is presented not only with variations on the themes of the play, but also with a rewrite and correction of the fourth act of the first "Seagull".- page 36 The first act of B. Akunin's play is completed, and the second act is written. B. Akunin partially rewrites and appends the ... Read more
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