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Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of
Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's
letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing
this substantial-though until now neglected-epistolary corpus. The
majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by
the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this
volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for
the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in
Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary
concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history,
translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the
letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose,
poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters
as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical
issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times
lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a
particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to
scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general
audience.
The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable
People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its
inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series
in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent
political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet
Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical
figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes
in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and
elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the
distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the
economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality
of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects
their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors
examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers
shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social
realities of both the subjects' and their biographers' times.
Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the
authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in
biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what
constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of
biography during eras of political censorship.
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of
Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's
letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing
this substantial-though until now neglected-epistolary corpus. The
majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by
the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this
volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for
the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in
Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary
concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history,
translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the
letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose,
poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters
as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical
issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times
lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a
particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to
scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general
audience.
"Dew on the Grass": The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the
first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic
dimensions of Anton Chekhov's prose and drama. Using the concept of
"inbetweenness", this book reconceptualizes the central aspects of
Chekhov's style, from his use of language to the origins of his
artistic worldview. Radislav Lapushin offers a fresh interpretive
framework for the analysis of Chekhov's individual works and his
oeuvre as a whole.
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