Ruffin: посты

В инглише ни бум бум, а до зарезу нужно перевести вот этот кусочек биографий Чехова.

Russian playwright and one of the great masters of modern short story. In his work Chekhov combined the dispassionate attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity and psychological understanding of an artist. Chekhov portrayed often life in the Russian small towns, where tragic events occur in a minor key, as a part of everyday texture of life. His characters are passive by-standers in regard to their lives, filled with the feeling of hopelessness and the fruitlessness of all efforts. «What difference does it make?» says Chebutykin in Three Sisters.

«There is not, or there hardly is, a single Russian gentleman or university man who does not boast of his past. The present is always worse than the past. Why? Because Russian excitability has one specific characteristic: it is quickly followed by exhaustion» (from Letters on the Short Story, the Drama and other Literary Topics, 1924)