Here is explored Chekhov’s role and Russian motives in the works of Anglo-Scottish writer William Boyd (born 1959). Chekhov was for Boyd a genius writer, who revolutionized literature by the end of the nineteenth century, changed its worldview and aesthetic paradigm, and as a result (in Boyd’s opinion) the modern British prose «came out of Chekhov».
Keywords
English prose of twentieth and tweenty-first centuries; William Boyd; Chekhov; Russian motives; modernism; postmodernism.
