Uncle Vanya (Chekhov - paperback)

Author: Anton Chekhov

Translator: Vlada Chernomordik

ISBN: 9780802131515

Binding: paperback

Section: Drama-Plays

In "Uncle Vanya," a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the stagnant inevitability of the rituals of their life and class, and mercilessly taxed by the encroachment of age at the expense of youth. All of the play’s characters are plunged into that precarious state where, in Beckett’s words, "the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being.”