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Seeing Chekhov - Life and Art (Hardcover, New)
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Seeing Chekhov - Life and Art (Hardcover, New)
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"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both
memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only
through the written record and across the distance of many decades.
To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees, and the
author's remarkable vision is understood as deriving from his
occupational or professional training and identity. But we have
failed to register, let alone understand, just what a central
concern for Chekhov himself, and how deeply problematic, were
precisely issues of seeing and being seen." from the
IntroductionMichael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms
concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician gave
him as a writer in a book that foregrounds the deeply subjective
and self-reflexive aspects of his fiction and drama. In exploring
previously unrecognized seams between the author's life and his
verbal art, Finke profoundly alters and deepens our understanding
of Chekhov's personality and behaviors, provides startling new
interpretations of a broad array of Chekhov's texts, and fleshes
out Chekhov's simultaneous pride in his identity as a physician and
devastating critique of turn-of-the-century medical practices and
ideologies. Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of
Russian literature, devotees of the short story and modern drama,
and anyone interested in the intersection of literature,
psychology, and medicine."
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