 | Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art Subjects: Chekhov Anton Pavlovich 1860–1904 -- Criticism and interpretation; Self in literature; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Darwin Charles 1809–1882 -- Influence; Dreams in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; "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... Michael C. Finke is Associate Professor of Russian in the International and Area Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov and the coeditor of One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts . |
