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ISBN
9780810117952

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810117959
ISBN-13
9780810117952
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1582055

Product Key Features

Book Title
Anton Chekhov : Alife
Number of Pages
674 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Author
Donald Rayfield
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
35.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-041864
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Full of fascinating surprises. It is hard to imagine another book about Chekhov after this one. . . . A sculpted likeness of a most human genius shown in the context of his time." --Arthur Miller, "The life Rayfield describes is no less impressive for having a flawed, at times unsympathetic, figure at its center. And his restraint in presenting his controversial new findings--along with the sheer quantity of fresh material he has amassed--is finally what makes his portrait so persuasive. His clear-eyed, critical sympathy for his less-than-perfect subject might have been borrowed from Chekhov's own writing." -- New York Times Book Review, "Without question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and like to remain so for a very long time to come. . . . [Rayfield] captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov, which at last begins to seem recognizably human--and even more extraordinary." --Michael Frayn
Dewey Decimal
891.72/3 B
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations and References A Note on Transliteration PART I. Father to the Man : 1860-79 1. Forefathers 2. Taganrog 3. Shop, Church and School 4. The Theatres of Life and Art 5. Disintegration 6. Destitution 7. Brothers Abandoned 8. Alone PART II. Doctor Chekhov : 1879-86 9. Initiation 10. The Wedding Season 11. The Spectator 12. Fragmentation 13. The Death of Mosia 14. The Qualified Practitioner 15. Babkino 16. Petersburg Calls 17. Getting Engaged 18. Acclaim PART III. My Brothers' Keeper : 1886-9 19. The Suvorins 20. Life in a Chest of Drawers 21. Taganrog Revisited 22. Ivanov in Moscow 23. The Death of Anna 24. Travel and Travails 25. The Prize 26. The Petersburg Ivanov 27. A Death at Luka 28. Shaking the Dust PART IV. Années de Pèlerinage : 1889-92 29. Exorcising the Demon 30. Arming for the Crusade 31. Crossing Siberia 32. Sakhalin 33. The Flight to Europe 34. Summer at Bogimovo 35. 'The Duel' and the Famine PART V. Cincinnatus : 1892-4 36. Sowing and Ploughing 37. Cholera 38. Summonnded by Suvorin 39. Sickbay 40. Daschshund Summer 41. Happy Avelan 42. The Women Scatter PART VI. Lika Disparue : 1894-6 43. Abishag Cherishes David 44. Potapenko the Bounder 45. The Birth of Christina 46. O Charudatta! 47. A Misogynist's Spring 48. Incubating The Seagull 49. The Fugitive Returns PART VII. The Flight of the Seagull: 1896-7 50. Two Diversions in Petersburg 51. Lika Rediscovered 52. The Khodynka Spring 53. The Consecration of the School 54. Night on a Bare Mountain 55. Fiasco 56. The Death of Christina 57. Cold Comfort 58. A Little Queen in Exile 59. Cutting the Gordian Knot PART VIII. Flowering Cemeteries : 1897-8 60. The Doctor is Sick 61. An Idle Summer 62. Promenades 63. Dreaming of Algiers 64. Chekhov Dreyfusard 65. The Birth of a Theatre 66. The Broken Cog PART IX. Three Triumphs : 1898-1901 67. The Seagull Resurrected 68. 'I am a Marxist' 69. Last Season in Melikhovo 70. Uncle Vania Triumphant 71. 'In the Ravine' 72. Olga in Yalta 73. Three Sisters 74. Nice Revisited 75. The Secret Marriage PART X. Love and Death : 1901-4 76. Honeymoon 77. When Doctors Disagree 78. Conjugal Ills 79. Liubimovka 80. 'The Bride' 81. The Cherry Orchard 82. Last Farewells 83. Aftermath Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is a man capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and family, a man who craved with equal passion the company of others and the solitude necessary to create his art. Based on information from Chekhov archives throughout Russia, Rayfield's work has been hailed as a groundbreaking examination of the life of a literary master.A new biography of the great author and playwright., Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is a man capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and family, a man who craved with equal passion the company of others and the solitude necessary to create his art. Based on information from Chekhov archives throughout Russia, Rayfield's work has been hailed as a groundbreaking examination of the life of a literary master.
LC Classification Number
PG3458.R35 2000

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