Čehov - naš savremenik
Chekhov - Our Contemporary

Summary/Abstract: This text deals with Chekhov’s questioning of the conventions of the stage observed as a box and his insistence on Nature as an important element of the dramatic space. Through the example of five of Chekhov’s great plays it shows the developmental journey of his plays, bearing in mind the place that Nature occupies in them. This journey could be treated as a path from the principle of representation based on the cube to the alternative principle based on the on the sphere, as suggested by Étienne Souriau. In this argument we can find reasons to proclaim Chekhov our contemporary.

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