Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov / [electronic resource] : edited by Olga Tabachnikova ; translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure ; translation editor, Adam Ure. - New York : Anthem Press, 2010. - lix, 251 p. : ports.

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.


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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 --Criticism and interpretation.
Rozanov, V. V. 1856-1919 --Criticism and interpretation.
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, 1865-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shestov, Lev, 1866-1938 --Criticism and interpretation.


Literature--Philosophy.
Criticism--Russia.


Electronic books.

PG3458.Z8 / A525 2010eb