Anton Chekhov

Peasants and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Garnett, Constance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.

The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov. He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, and denouement. Terms such as slices of life and sketches are used to highlight the fact that often very little happens in Chekhov's short stories. What is left unsaid reveals as much or more than what is said. The result is a sparse and atmospheric work that has less in common with that other major fictional formthe novelthan it does with the lyric poem. The creation of this new literary form enables Chekhov to express some of the most penetrating psychological insights in modern literature and to share with readers a gentle and compassionate view of humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411466388
• Artikelnr.: 49746544

Autorenporträt

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) the son of a grocer and serf, worked as a physician and ran an open clinic for the poor, while also writing the plays and short stories that have established him as one of the greatest figures in Russian literature. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, includingAxel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.