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,Chekhov: “An astonishing sense of freedom”,s a writer who was indelibly influenced by Chekhov, she also played a role in interpreting his significance for British readers and theatergoers. Yet, as one of Chekhov’s contemporary biographers observes, “It was really only in the second half of the 20th century that we began to be able to perceiv

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,Turgenev: “A passion for art”,on for a projected essay focusing exclusively on Turgenev. Her reading notes on his fiction comprise her most extensive series of notes on any single writer; the resulting essay, “The Novels of Turgenev,” is Woolf’s only essay to focus on a Russian writer by himself. The essay was published in Decem

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,Conclusion: “The accent falls a little differently…”, that matter), Woolf spent a considerable amount of time there in her imagination—particularly early in her career—discovering, mulling over, and adapting for her own purposes what was “most unlike” what she was used to.

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,Tolstoy: “Genius in the raw”,oy as one of the major writers she discusses in the latter essay. However, she expressed to Vita Sackville-West her view that it was Tolstoy—not the Edwardian “materialists” whom she had previously identified as the source of her aesthetic discontent—who was the true catalyst for the Modernist shift. She wrote,

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,Chekhov: “An astonishing sense of freedom”,it is difficult to imagine how startling and radical his works were to the puzzled contemporary readers and bewildered theatergoers of Virginia Woolf’s day or to appreciate the intellectual and emotional demands his stories and plays made on them. His influence on the evolution of the short story is

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,Turgenev: “A passion for art”,ky and Tolstoy, as “the least great of the Russian trinity” (”English Prose,” . 3: 174). However, she read and admired the fiction of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev during the decade between 1910 and 1920 when she first read the major Russian writers. Her sole review of his fiction, “A Glance at Turgenev