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what was Chekhov's innovation? A difficult question to answer
briefly, but we can say that he set a new form for the short
story It was different from anything that had been written
before, not like a story but like a piece of life itself, told
in simple straight forward, poetic style. This new form was
bound to be used after him and interwoven with new human values,
as was also the unique manner he had of describing the frail
flitting feelings of the human being. The reader would at once
think: why, this is me, that's how I feel, how I think.
Imperceptible psychological contradictions, small joys and
pains, and a thousand other evanescent feelings were caught by
that magic pen. What Chekhov brought to literature was the human
element, unadulterated and authentic, only to be found in rough
form in the great epics of old such as no one had ever dreamed
of exposing before, the subtle side of the human being that
laughs and weeps at the same time. And that is what Turhan
Selcuk gives us too: the human being laughing as he weeps.
Turhan Selcuk's art has a richness that emanates from the simple
severity of his drawings and the meticulous polish he brings to
them. What Chekhov did for literature Turhan Selcuk has
intensified and enriched with the potentialities of the graphic
arts, bringing fresh dimensions to poetry and story-telling and
new psycho logical elements to humanity, in short forcing back
the horizon of man's psychology His art is like a mirror set up
against the obscure spots of human nature, delving through the
darkness and illuminating many things in us which we ignored,
and this is just what has been done by Homer, Cervantes,
Dostoievsky and Faulkner.
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