Galina Rylkova

Breaking Free from Death

The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and their literary characters must face in order to preserve their integrity while attempting to achieve fame and success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781644692660
• ISBN-10: 164469266X
• Artikelnr.: 57841029

Autorenporträt

Galina Rylkova is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy (2007). Her research interests include: Psychology of Creative Personality; Biography; and Russian Theater.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Breaking Free from Death
Part One: Beginnings and Endings
1. Leo Tolstoy and the Privilege of Formidable Hypochondria
2. In Chertkov's Grip
3. Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability
4. "Homo Sachaliensis": Chekhov's "Character" as a Strategy
5. The Steppe as a Story of Humble and Spectacular Beginnings
Part Two: Transcending Death
6. Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold's Eyes
7. Living with Tolstoy and Dying with Chekhov: Ivan Bunin's Liberation of
Tolstoy (1937) and About Chekhov (1953) as Two Modes of Auto/Biographical
Writing
8. "There is a way out": The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century
9. A Boring Story: Chekhov's Trip to Germany in 1904
Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev
Index