Reading chekhov: a critical journey

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Sinopse

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one ... It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The TimesIn Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of death that hovered over most of Chekhov's literary career - he became consumptive in his twenties and died in his forties - is almost everywhere reflected in the work. She writes of his childhood, his relationship with his family, his marriage, his travels, his early success, his exile to Yalta - always with an eye to connecting them to his themes and characters.

Participantes

Autor: Janet Malcolm

Autor

JANET MALCOLM

Janet Malcolm nasceu em Praga em 1934 e emigrou com a família para os Estados Unidos em 1939. Uma das mais importantes jornalistas americanas, Janet vive em Nova York e trabalha na New Yorker. É autora dos livros de reportagem A mulher calada, Psicanálise: a profissão impossível, Nos arquivos de Freud e Duas vidas: Gertrude e Alice.