"The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov. 1903
This Chekhov's comedy is studied as one of the key and momentous classical literature works summing up the 19th century results and ushering "the Real Twentieth Century". Drama principles are described such as absence of a key protagonist, the non-personal nature of the conflict, the two plots, core motifs as well as symbolic images. The comedy is seen as a play about man within the time flow, a story of losing Home, setting a 20th century human existence formula.
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