Swan Song by Anton Chekhov – The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov are included on The Bokklubben World Library’s Best 100 Books of All Time list, and they are ranked 127th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the apportioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

Swan Song by Anton Chekhov – The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov are included on The Bokklubben World Library’s Best 100 Books of All Time list, and they are ranked 127th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the apportioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

10 out of 10


 

Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-letters-of-kingsley-amis-edited-by.html my absolute favorite novelist wrote about the ‘Checkoff formula: you take a lot of characters, all miserable because of something they won't do, and let them talk without influencing each other for three acts, and at the last moment you introduce some arbitrary calamity, or some proposed change like a return to Petrograd or a holiday in the Cry-mere, which you know won't make any difference to any of them, and then you go on for ten minutes or so after the thing should have stopped even by your own standards, to show how delicate and unemphatic your art is’ there is also the shotgun principle, a Chekhov rule:

 

"Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third act it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."

George Constantin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/uncle-vanya-by-anton-chekhov.html has the leading role in this one act play, he sings the Swan Song: he is an actor who laments the passing of time, he is about sixty and thinks of death, he talks to the prompter, a man who sleeps in the theater, for he has no means

 

This was the greatest thespian ever, if you ask me, he was above Jack Nicholson and all the other masters of this game, because he had a Unique gift, he had supernatural powers, could transmit a whole range of feelings, he was both dramatic and humorous, dominant and humble, he was an alien, a god of the stage

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-odyssey-by-homer.html he would have made a fabulous Ulysses – he is part of the cast of the adaptation for National Radio, though I cannot remember what his role was, there may be another note, coming soon, or at least in the next seven years, and then it will all be clear

 

Any and every character would gain if this Magister Ludi were to bring it to the stage, on the screen, or even for the Radio Theater: he had the chance to play some of the local heroes – Burebista, Petru Rares, the latter has a play dedicated to his memory and I plan to write a few lines about that, albeit I do not find it online

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/books-do-furnish-room-by-anthony-powell.html Geroge Constantin would have brought substance, pomp and circumstances, irony, majesty and ludicrousness to Widmerpool, the villain of A Dance to The Music of Time…I did not mention (so far) the most abject figure in the world

nevertheless, Putin would take that spot, along with a few others, such as Kim of North Korea, Xi of China, the latter likes to project a rather amiable, if powerful sovereign, except we know these are tyrants, and others aspire to get the same strength, from Orban in Hungary to Erdogan in Turkey, Simion here

 

 

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