Chekhov: Scenes from a Life
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 Life restores 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.
- Author
- Rosamund Bartlett
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 395
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780743230759
- Genres
- biography, russia
- Release date
- 2005
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