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286 Anton Tchekhof
their jackets; when they strive to squeeze out a moral
from the flat, vulgar pictures and the flat, vulgar phrases,
a little tiny moral, easy to comprehend and handy for
home consumption, when in a thousand variations they
offer me always the same thing over and over and over
again then I take to my heels and run, as Maupassant
ran from the Eiffel Tower, which crushed his brain by its
overwhelming vulgarity. . . . We must have new for
mulas. That s what we want. And if there are none,
then it s better to have nothing at all.
With Mme. Arcadina is her lover, Trigorin, a
successful writer. When he began his literary
career, he possessed originality and strength. But
gradually writing became a habit: the publishers
constantly demand new books, and he supplies
them.
Oh, the slavery of being an
"
arrived
"
artist,
forging new chains for oneself with every
"
best
seller
"
! Such is the position of Trigorin : he
hates his work as the worst drudgery. Exhausted
of ideas, all life and human relations serve him
only as material for copy.
Nina, innocent of the ways of the world and
saturated with the false romanticism of Trigorin s
works, does not see the man but the celebrated art
ist. She is carried away by his fame and stirred
by his presence; an infatuation with him quickly
replaces her affection for Constantine. To her
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