Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers
Subtitle: Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov
By: edited by Olga Tabachnikova ; translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure; translation editor, Adam Ure
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843318415; 9780857289827
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Brief biographies: Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov; title: Rozanov on Chekhov: overcoming literature and extending horizons / Vladimir Kataev; title: Kind and quiet: Vasilii Rozanov's reading of Chekhov / Aleksandr Medvedev; title: Contemporaneity, competition and combat. facts and fiction about everybody and passiveness, Orientalism and anaesthesia in Rozanov's view on Chekhov / Rainer Grübel; title: "Tree of life" and "dead waters": why was Rozanov afraid of Chekhov? / Michal Oklot; title: Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: two types of artistic-philosophical consciousness / Aleksandr Chudakov; title: Negating his own negation: Merezhkovskii's understanding of Chekhov's role in russian culture / Anna Lisa Crone; title: An illuminating misinterpretation: on Merezhkovskii's literary criticism of Chekhov / Karoline Thaidigsmann; title: Can Merezhkovskii see the spirit in the prose of flesh? / Vladimir Golstein; title: Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov; title: Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova; title: Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich; title: Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova.