谈《三姐妹》

A Reading of Three Sisters

契诃夫的《三姐妹》写的是远离莫斯科的一个小城的生活,是俄罗斯优秀知识分子的命运。这些知识分子不满足于庸俗的日常生活,渴望心灵的解脱,渴望“二、三百年后的幸福的生活”。剧本中没有夸张、激烈的戏剧冲突。在契诃夫的戏剧舞台上,表现的不是那种人为的、超出我们日常生活经验的事件。一切看起来仿佛和生活中一样。在这样的平淡无奇中,契诃夫却为我们揭示了日常生活里最重要、最深刻的矛盾。

In his depiction of the life in a remote Russian town in Three Sisters, Chekhov reveals the fate of Russian intellectuals. They are not satisfied with mundane life and anticipate complete freedom of mind. They long for “the happy life after hundreds of years”. Instead of producing dramatic and radical conflicts in his play, Chekhov unfolds profound conflicts in a series of scenes of routine quotidian life.