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Oates, Joyce Carol - Vladimir Zviniatskovsky (essay date 1997)

Vladimir Zviniatskovsky (essay date 1997)

SOURCE: Zviniatskovsky, Vladimir. “Two Ladies with Two Dogs and Two Gentlemen (Joyce Carol Oates and Chekhov).” In Chekhov Then and Now: The Reception of Chekhov in World Culture, edited by J. Douglas Clayton, pp. 125-36. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

[In the following essay, Zviniatskovsky contrasts Oates's “The Lady with the Dog” with the original version by Anton Chekhov.]

Love. Either this is the remnant of something which is dying out, which was vastly important at one time, or it is a part of something which will develop in the future into something vastly important; at present though it does not satisfy and gives much less than you expect.

(From a notebook of A. P. Chekhov1)

Surely … anyone … might acknowledge the difficulties that arise when language (or a single term, “androgyny”) is evoked to gain an emotional...

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