Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov

This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov

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Weitere Verfasser: Tabachnikova, Olga 1967- (HerausgeberIn, ÜbersetzerIn), Ure, Adam (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Anthem Press 2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Brief biographies: Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov
  • Rozanov on Chekhov: overcoming literature and extending horizons / Vladimir Kataev
  • Kind and quiet: Vasilii Rozanov's reading of Chekhov / Aleksandr Medvedev
  • Contemporaneity, competition and combat. facts and fiction about everybody and passiveness, Orientalism and anaesthesia in Rozanov's view on Chekhov / Rainer Grübel
  • "Tree of life" and "dead waters": why was Rozanov afraid of Chekhov? / Michal Oklot
  • Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: two types of artistic-philosophical consciousness / Aleksandr Chudakov
  • Negating his own negation: Merezhkovskii's understanding of Chekhov's role in russian culture / Anna Lisa Crone
  • An illuminating misinterpretation: on Merezhkovskii's literary criticism of Chekhov / Karoline Thaidigsmann
  • Can Merezhkovskii see the spirit in the prose of flesh? / Vladimir Golstein
  • Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov
  • Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova
  • Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich
  • Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova