num_pages: 275
description: In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences recognize from the more familiar plays. Now Hare has turned his attention to the other, equally surprising key work of Chekhov's youth - an abandoned seven-hour teenage manuscript in which a Russian schoolmaster faces up to the implications of being irresistibly attractive to four different women. Once again, we are introduced to a great Russian playwright who is funnier, more exuberant and more wildly romantic than anyone expects.
language: German
title: Die Vaterlosen:
titlecomplete: Die Vaterlosen: (Platonov)
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, Russia, Russian Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 400
publisher: Diogenes Verlag