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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459766103321

Titolo

Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers : Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov / / edited by Olga Tabachnikova ; translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure ; translation editor, Adam Ure [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-37735-7

9786613377357

0-85728-982-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lix, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

Disciplina

891.72/3

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Criticism - Russia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 Grùˆbel -- "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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.