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Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsPrologue: Breaking Free from Death
Part One: Beginnings and Endings1. Leo Tolstoy and the Privilege of Formidable Hypochondria
2. In Chertkov¿s Grip
3.
Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability
4. ¿Homo Sachaliensis¿: Chekhov¿s ¿Character¿ as a Strategy
5.
The Steppe as a Story of Humble and Spectacular Beginnings
Part Two: Transcending Death6. Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold¿s Eyes
7. Living with Tolstoy and Dying with Chekhov: Ivan Bunin¿s
Liberation of Tolstoy (1937) and
About Chekhov (1953) as Two Modes of Auto/Biographical Writing
8. ¿There is a way out¿:
The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century
9. A Boring Story: Chekhov¿s Trip to Germany in 1904
Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev
Index
Info autore
Galina Rylkova is
Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida. She is the
author of
The Archaeology of Anxiety: The
Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy (2007). Her research interests include:
Psychology of Creative Personality; Biography; and Russian Theater.
Riassunto
Examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and their literary characters must face in order to preserve their integrity while attempting to achieve fame and success.
