Russian writer Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time. Chekhov on Writing draws on Chekhov s own letters and reports to reveal his techniques and ideas to enable both first time and experienced writers to write like Chekhov. It contains 99 timeless tips from the master on how to write, for example: Take something from real, day to day life, with neither plot nor ending Brevity is the sister of talent. The point is not what I saw, but how I saw it. The ideal gift book for any aspiring writer whether of fiction or journalism. Russian writer Maxim Gorky said that no one has ever understood the tragedy of life s trivialities as clearly as Anton Chekhov. Chekhov s singular ability to speak volumes with a single, impeccably chosen word, mesh comedy and pathos, to capture life s basic sadness at the same time as entertaining his reader, is a reason so many want to write like him. Chekhov s goal in writing was to be a simple reporter whose goal was not to preach but to be a mere chronicler, giving the unconditional and honest truth. This book brings together two different strands of Chekhov s writing - real-life reportage based on his visit to the island of Sakhalin, to which Russian prisoners were sentenced to hard labour, which evoked the conversations, sensations, sights, smells and sounds and made his readers feel that they had taken a tour of hell. The second, more literary strand is based on direct quotations from letters to such literary contemporaries as Nabokov, Tolstoy, his brother Alexander and his editor, reveals what made Anton Chekhov the universally acknowledged great writer that he is and show how his words of wisdom are as contemporary and apposite today as they were when he died over a century ago.
Piero Brunello is a Professor of Social History at the University of Venice in Italy. Lena Lencek is Professor of Russian and the Humanities at Reed College in Portland and the author and editor of moe than a dozen books. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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