SOURCE: "Chekhov's Theatre," in The Breaking String: The Plays of Anton Chekhov, Schocken Books, 1983, pp. 3-47.
In the following excerpt from a work that was first published in 1966, Valency finds Turgenev's plays a mixture of realism and idealism, noting that they demonstrate "a very different realism from the noncommital, 'scientific ' sort, in which the author pointedly refrains from making judgments and taking sides. Turgenev took sides. He left no doubt as to where his sympathies lay. "
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