Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers [electronic resource] : Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov / edited by Olga Tabachnikova ; translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure ; translation editor, Adam Ure.

Includes bibliographical references.

Brief biographies: Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov -- Rozanov on Chekhov: overcoming literature and extending horizons / Vladimir Kataev -- Kind and quiet: Vasilii Rozanov's reading of Chekhov / Aleksandr Medvedev -- Contemporaneity, competition and combat. facts and fiction about everybody and passiveness, Orientalism and anaesthesia in Rozanov's view on Chekhov / Rainer Grübel -- "Tree of life" and "dead waters": why was Rozanov afraid of Chekhov? / Michal Oklot -- Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: two types of artistic-philosophical consciousness / Aleksandr Chudakov -- Negating his own negation: Merezhkovskii's understanding of Chekhov's role in russian culture / Anna Lisa Crone -- An illuminating misinterpretation: on Merezhkovskii's literary criticism of Chekhov / Karoline Thaidigsmann -- Can Merezhkovskii see the spirit in the prose of flesh? / Vladimir Golstein -- Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov -- Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova -- Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich -- Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.