Anton Chekhov: A LifeDependents and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at age forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short-story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. When he was a child, his family life was at times made a hell by a monstrous father, a possessive sister, and delinquent elder brothers; his own adult life was tortuously balanced between the affections of a series of mistresses and a marriage to an actress that was not as idyllic as it has traditionally been painted. Donald Rayfield's biography strips the whitewash from the image of Chekhov and shows us what lay behind his restrained, ironic facade. The result does not denigrate him but shows him in the full heroism of his brief, prodigiously creative life. Rayfield has spent more than three years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia (Chekhov was a restless traveler for the whole of his life, going from Siberia to the Cote d'Azur) and has uncovered thousands of documents and letters from Chekhov's lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before, which cumulatively tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected. The many cuts made in Soviet and foreign editions of Chekhov's and his wife's letters have been restored; what once was hidden is now revealed. |
Comentarios de usuarios - Escribir una reseña
Las reseñas no se verifican, pero Google comprueba si hay contenido falso y lo retira una vez identificado
LibraryThing Review
Reseña de usuario - idyll - LibraryThingI listened to this book on tape (from Audible) and parts of it were hard going. Either the narrator or the writing has a flat, relentless quality to it, hard to tell which The book grew on me though ... Leer reseña completa
ANTON CHEKHOV: A Life
Reseña de usuario - KirkusShort on literary and historical perspective, Rayfield's exhaustive work nevertheless will be the definitive biography of Chekhov the private and family man. Rayfield, an established Chekhov scholar ... Leer reseña completa
Índice
186079 | 1 |
Forefathers | 3 |
Taganrog | 9 |
Shop Church and School | 13 |
The Theatres of Life and Art | 23 |
Disintegration | 31 |
Destitution | 42 |
Brothers Abandoned | 51 |
The Women Scatter | 305 |
18946 | 311 |
Abishag cherishes David | 313 |
Potapenko the Bounder | 321 |
The Birth of Christina | 327 |
O Charudatta | 334 |
A Misogynists Spring | 341 |
Incubating The Seagull | 349 |
Alone | 59 |
PART II | 68 |
187986 | 71 |
Initiation | 73 |
The Wedding Season | 79 |
The Spectator | 82 |
Fragmentation | 89 |
The Death of Mosia | 96 |
The Qualified Practitioner | 106 |
Petersburg Calls | 117 |
Getting Engaged | 123 |
Acclaim | 128 |
18869 | 135 |
The Suvorins | 137 |
Life in a Chest of Drawers | 145 |
Taganrog Revisited | 152 |
Ivanov in Moscow | 158 |
The Death of Anna | 163 |
Travel and Travails | 171 |
The Prize | 177 |
The Petersburg Ivanov | 185 |
A Death at Luka | 192 |
Shaking the Dust | 198 |
188992 | 205 |
Exorcizing the Demon | 207 |
Arming for the Crusade | 215 |
Crossing Siberia | 222 |
Sakhalin | 229 |
The Flight to Europe | 238 |
Summer at Bogimovo | 246 |
The Duel and the Famine | 253 |
18924 | 263 |
Sowing and Ploughing | 265 |
Cholera | 275 |
Summoned by Suvorin | 281 |
Sickbay | 288 |
Dachshund Summer | 293 |
Happy Avelan | 299 |
The Fugitive Returns | 354 |
18967 | 363 |
Two Diversions in Petersburg | 365 |
Lika Rediscoverd | 370 |
The Khodynka Spring | 374 |
The Consecration of the School | 381 |
Night on a Bare Mountain | 385 |
Fiasco | 390 |
The Death of Christina | 397 |
Cold Comfort | 405 |
A Little Queen in Exile | 411 |
Cutting the Gordian Knot | 418 |
18978 | 421 |
The Doctor is Sick | 423 |
An Idle Summer | 428 |
Promenades | 436 |
Dreaming of Algiers | 443 |
Chekhov Dreyfusard | 448 |
The Birth of a Theatre | 456 |
The Broken Cog | 463 |
Last Season in Melikhovo | 488 |
Uncle Vania Triumphant | 496 |
In the Ravine | 503 |
Olga in Yalta | 509 |
Three Sisters | 515 |
Nice Revisited | 521 |
The Secret Marriage | 527 |
When Doctors Disagree | 547 |
Conjugal Ills | 554 |
Liubimovka | 561 |
The Bride | 567 |
The Cherry Orchard | 576 |
Last Farewells | 587 |
Aftermath | 597 |
Notes | 605 |
627 | |
641 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
Aleksandr Anna Anton Antosha arrived asked August Aunt became become brother brought called Chekhov church daughter Dear death died doctor drink early Easter Evgenia father felt four friends gave girls give invited January July June Kolia later leave Leikin letter Levitan Lika live look lost March married Masha meet Melikhovo miles Misha Mitrofan months Moscow mother moved Natalia needed never night November October offered Olga painted passed Pavel peasants Petersburg play Potapenko returned roubles Russian Sakhalin Selivanov sent showed sister sons soon spent stay story student summer Suvorin Taganrog talk teacher tell theatre things thought told took train turned Uncle Vania wanted week wife woman women write wrote