Chekhov: Scenes from a Life

Chekhov: Scenes from a Life
ISBN-10
0743230752
ISBN-13
9780743230759
Series
Chekhov
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
395
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Free Press
Author
Rosamund Bartlett

Description

What made Chekhov tick? What served as a source of creative inspiration in his life? In answering these questions, Russian scholar Rosamund Bartlett focuses on the writer's intimate relationship with the places where he lived and traveled--Taganrog and the southern Russian steppes, Moscow, Petersburg, Siberia, the French Riviera, and Yalta. By looking at his life through the prism of these landscapes, it is possible to gain a far greater insight into one of the most enigmatic writers who ever lived. Chekhov: Scenes from a Liferestores the humor and warmth to a man too often seen as merely melancholic, and reminds us why many consider him to be the greatest short-story writer of all time.

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