Rylkova Breaking Free from Death

The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64469-367-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten

Breaking Free from Death examines the lives and choices that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold must have faced in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness and success.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rylkova, Galina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Breaking Free from Death Part One: Beginnings and Endings1. 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 BeginningsPart Two: Transcending Death6. 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 1904Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and TurgenevIndex

Über Autor(innen)

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.