Galina Rylkova

Breaking Free from Death

The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer

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Produktbeschreibung

Breaking Free from Death examines the lives and choices that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold must have faced in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness and success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781644692646
• ISBN-10: 1644692643
• Artikelnr.: 57839515

Autorenporträt

Galina Rylkova is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy (2007). Her research interests include: Psychology of Creative Personality; Biography; and Russian Theater.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: Breaking Free from Death Part One: Beginnings and Endings 1. Leo Tolstoy and the Privilege of Formidable Hypochondria 2. In Chertkov
s Grip 3. Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability 4.
Homo Sachaliensis
: Chekhov
s
Character
as a Strategy 5. The Steppe as a Story of Humble and Spectacular Beginnings Part Two: Transcending Death 6. Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold
s Eyes 7. Living with Tolstoy and Dying with Chekhov: Ivan Bunin
s Liberation of Tolstoy (1937) and About Chekhov (1953) as Two Modes of Auto/Biographical Writing 8.
There is a way out
: The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century 9. A Boring Story: Chekhov
s Trip to Germany in 1904 Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev Index