Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov (author), Michael Frayn (translator)

Paperback Published on: 11/06/1987

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Synopsis

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life. The major dynamics between the characters themselves are centred on two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. Mixing the tragic and the absurd and dealing with a form that allows for ambiguity and contradiction, Uncle Vanya has been deemed "the first modernist play". (David Lan)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780413159502
Number of pages: 108
Weight: 142g
Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 6 mm