Reading Chekhov

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781847085368 Author(s): Janet Malcolm Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2012 Edition: 2nd Publisher: Granta Books Pages: 224

Description: In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of death that hovered over most of Chekhov's literary career - he became consumptive in his twenties and died in his forties - is almost everywhere reflected in the work. She writes of his childhood, his relationship with his family, his marriage, his travels, his early success, his exile to Yalta - always with an eye to connecting them to his themes and characters.

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