Chekhov S Sakhalin Journey

Author : Jonathan Cole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350367487

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Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey by Jonathan Cole Pdf

Chekhov often said that 'I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time', a surprising claim, given his status as a giant of 20th century drama. This literary-biographical study uncovers new sides to him, as both a medical professional and humanitarian, and tells the story of Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin Island in the harsh wastes of Siberia. Anton Chekhov practiced medicine for most of his life and engaged in humanitarian work which took him away from writing for months. He placed one such trip though, across the unforgiving terrain of Siberia to write about the penal island of Sakhalin, above all others. Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey, written by a neuroscientist and practicing clinician, uses this trip and Chekhov's own account of it to shed light on hitherto overlooked aspects of his life. In doing so, it shows that to understand the man we need his medicine as well as his literature, and we need to assess his life from his perspective as well as ours.

Author : Jonathan Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Knowledge and learning
ISBN : 1350367494

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Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey by Jonathan Cole Pdf

Chekhov often said that 'I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time', a surprising claim, given his status as a giant of 20th century drama. This literary-biographical study uncovers new sides to him, as both a medical professional and humanitarian, and tells the story of Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin Island in the harsh wastes of Siberia. Anton Chekhov practiced medicine for most of his life and engaged in humanitarian work which took him away from writing for months. He placed one such trip though, across the unforgiving terrain of Siberia to write about the penal island of Sakhalin, above all others. Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey, written by a neuroscientist and practicing clinician, uses this trip and Chekhov's own account of it to shed light on hitherto overlooked aspects of his life. In doing so, it shows that to understand the man we need his medicine as well as his literature, and we need to assess his life from his perspective as well as ours.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780714545615

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Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov Pdf

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Exiles
ISBN : UOM:39015029290601

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A Journey to Sakhalin by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021966042

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The Island by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

Author : Juras T. Ryfa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015042002421

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The Problem of Genre and the Quest for Justice in Chekhov's The Island of Sakhalin by Juras T. Ryfa Pdf

This study presents a detailed account of Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin, draws together scarce secondary material concerning the book, and offers insights into the problematic aspects of genre in light of modern critical and theoretical developments. Meanwhile, following Chekhov's remarkable story, the author connects the past to the present in a variety of spheres, including Russian's attitudes towards governance and the continuing geopolitical sensitivity of Sakhalin and the Kuirl Islands.

Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571309290

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Anton Chekhov by Donald Rayfield Pdf

The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn: 'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts with the huge advantage of much new material that was prudishly suppressed under the Soviet regime, or tactfully ignored by scholars. But his mastery of all the evidence, both old and new - a massive archive - is magisterial, his background knowledge of the period is huge; his Russian is sensitive to every colloquial nuance of the day, and his tone is sure. He captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov which at last begins to seem recognisably human - and even more extraordinary.' Chekhov's life was short, he was only forty-four when he died, and dogged with ill-health but his plays and short stories assure him of his place in the literary pantheon. Here is a biography that does him full justice, in short, unapologetically to repeat that word 'definitive'. 'I don't remember any monograph by a Western scholar on a Russian author having such success. . . Nikita Mikhalkov said that before this book came out we didn't know Chekhov. . . The author doesn't invent, add or embellish anything . . . Rayfield is motivated by the Westerner's urge not ot hold information back, however grim it may be.' Anatoli Smelianski, Director of Moscow Arts Theatre School 'It is hard to imagine another book about Chekhov after this one by Donald Rayfield.' Arthur Miller, Sunday Times 'Donald Rayfield's exemplary biography draws on a daunting array of material inacessible or ignored by his predecessors.' Nikolai Tolstoy, The Literary Review 'Donald Rayfield, Chekhov's best and definitive biographer.' William Boyd, Guardian

Author : James McConkey
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780966491357

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To a Distant Island by James McConkey Pdf

In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

Author : Anton Chekov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0141025506

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A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire by Anton Chekov Pdf

Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114623

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Chekhov's Journey by Ian Watson Pdf

In 1890 the Russian author Chekhov undertook an historic journey across Siberia to the convict island of Sakhalin. A hundred years later, in an isolated artist's retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares to commemorate his journey by using a technique that will cause their chosen actor to not only play the role of the playwright, but to believe that he is Chekhov. But the situations Mikhail acts out diverge wildly from known biographical facts when Chekhov hears of an explosion in the Tunguska region of Siberia. Yet the real Tunguska explosion occurred in 1908 - so how could Chekhov have possible heard of it in 1890?

Author : Anton Chekov
Publisher : Oneworld Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184749207X

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Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekov Pdf

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Author : Michael C. Finke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501721540

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Seeing Chekhov by Michael C. Finke Pdf

"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees, and the author's remarkable vision is understood as deriving from his occupational or professional training and identity. But we have failed to register, let alone understand, just what a central concern for Chekhov himself, and how deeply problematic, were precisely issues of seeing and being seen."—from the Introduction Michael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician gave him as a writer in a book that foregrounds the deeply subjective and self-reflexive aspects of his fiction and drama. In exploring previously unrecognized seams between the author's life and his verbal art, Finke profoundly alters and deepens our understanding of Chekhov's personality and behaviors, provides startling new interpretations of a broad array of Chekhov's texts, and fleshes out Chekhov's simultaneous pride in his identity as a physician and devastating critique of turn-of-the-century medical practices and ideologies. Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of Russian literature, devotees of the short story and modern drama, and anyone interested in the intersection of literature, psychology, and medicine.

Author : Miguel A. Cabañas,Jeanne Dubino,Veronica Salles-Reese,Gary Totten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317585060

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Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing by Miguel A. Cabañas,Jeanne Dubino,Veronica Salles-Reese,Gary Totten Pdf

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.

Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448202249

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Chekhov by V.S. Pritchett Pdf

V.S. Pritchett explores the connections between Chekhov's life and art, showing how Chekhov often based his fiction on experiences of his difficult early years where he was responsible for his impoverished family, and as a young doctor, reported on the conditions of the Russian penal colony at Sakhalin. Later he continued his medical career, even when he became a well-known writer and playwright. This book focuses on the short stories of Chekhov often neglected in favor of his plays and discusses why Chekhov was a success in both mediums. Pritchett, himself a master of the short story, is a uniquely qualified to write this superb biography. "Pritchett...presents a unique critical perspective as a short story master whose work spans this century, interpreting an illustrious predecessor through their shared art." -Boston Globe

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810114607

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Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

First published in 1973, this collection of Chekhov's correspondence is widely regarded as the best introduction to this great Russian writer. Weighted heavily toward the correspondence dealing with literary and intellectual matters, this extremely informative collection provides fascinating insight into Chekhov's development as a writer. Michael Henry Heim's excellent translation and Simon Karlinsky's masterly headnotes make this volume an essential text for anyone interested in Chekhov.