by Anton Tschechow · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257200935
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«Onkel Vanja» is the four-act drama by Anton Tschechow, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (70 pages, in German).
Retired professor Aleksandr Serebrjakov moves with his young wife Elena to the estate where Uncle Vanya, his mother, and Sonia, the professor's daughter from his first marriage, live. The cohabitation exposes Vanya's resentment toward a man he considers a parasite, while the characters carry unrequited loves and longings for a better life.
Part of the collection «Das dramatische Werk» (volume 4), translated and edited by Peter Urban.
Recommended for readers of classical theatre and literature students interested in nineteenth-century Russian drama.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
