Synopses & Reviews
This collection of Chekov's correspondence is weighted heavily toward the letters dealing with literary and intellectual matters. It provides insight into Chekov's development as a writer.
Synopsis
First published in 1973, this collection of Chekhov's correspondence is widely regarded as the best introduction to this great Russian writer. Weighted heavily toward the correspondence dealing with literary and intellectual matters, this extremely informative collection provides fascinating insight into Chekhov's development as a writer. Michael Henry Heim's excellent translation and Simon Karlinsky's masterly headnotes make this volume an essential text for anyone interested in Chekhov.
About the Author
Simon Karlinsky is professor emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Henry Heim is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He is the author of Contemporary Czech and the translator of many works, including Dubravka Ugresic's Fording the Stream of Consciousness and In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories, also published by Northwestern University Press.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: The Gentle Subversive
I. The Taganrog Metamorphosis
II. The Medical Student Who Wrote for Humor Magazines
III. Serious Literature
IV. Success as a Playwright: "Ivanov"
V. A Sense of Literary Freedom
VI. The Journey to Sakhalin
VII. Western Europe
VIII. The Busy Years
IX. Settled Life
X. "The Seagull"
XI The Inescapable Diagnosis
XII. Nice. The Dreyfus Case
XIII. Yalta
XIV. "Three Sisters." Marriage
XV. "The Cherry Orchard"
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index