Chekhovian
of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
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He was like some cryptic English-Chekhovian figure, playing out the last days of his private, imagined Raj.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut at the same time there is a Chekhovian side of Coward waiting to be mined.
Well, not quite Chekhovian, but it that Chekhovian moment of intimacy that just sort of wafts away.
He invented wonderful Chekhovian names, of which I now—alas!
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov | Maxim GorkyHis Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life.
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov | Maxim Gorky
But it is his prodigious fantasy that makes the point of his departure from the Chekhovian formula.
The Old House and Other Tales | Feodor SologubO, the overwhelming depth of these simple, ordinary, very Chekhovian words!
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov | Maxim Gorky
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