Anton Chekhov

Broschiertes Buch

Sakhalin Island

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alma Classics / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 440093
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781847497864
• ISBN-10: 1847497861
• Artikelnr.: 54410265

Rezensionen

As a work of literature, Sakhalin Island is a masterpiece of restrained, dignified, unsentimental prose . a work of complete seriousness, full of clear, humane, practical suggestions for reform. The Observer