...Chekhov has his old, insomniac professor--a man conscious he is dying--repudiate the belles-lettres of his day by objecting to the need for writers to have "a warm attitude to man".

I have found Chekhov compelling. His storytelling combines vivid austerity of detail with a quality of dispassionate compassion. So my question is: How, by looking at their lives more coldly, did Chekhov in fact extend the range and warmth of a reader's sympathy for his people from that which is aroused by the earlier conventions of character-based fiction as we find in the Russian psychological realists, or the French and English novelists...

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