A Life Of Chekhov
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What happens when one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists turns her penetrating gaze upon one of literature's most enigmatic figures? Irène Némirovsky's A Life of Chekhov chronicles the turbulent existence of Anton Chekhov — from his impoverished childhood in Taganrog, through his relentless literary ascent, to his tragic death at just forty-four — with the intimacy and narrative verve of a master storyteller. Translated by Erik de Mauny, this biography presents Chekhov not merely as an icon of Russian letters, but as a complex, contradictory man, driven simultaneously by compassion and detachment, ambition and self-doubt. Némirovsky brings a novelist's precision to the biographical form, illuminating the inner life of the man who gave the world The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, and some of the most perfectly constructed short stories ever written. Her portrayal argues that Chekhov's art was inseparable from his suffering — his chronic tuberculosis, his fraught relationships, and his uneasy position between the old Russia and the new. Written with the same quiet intensity that defines Némirovsky's own fiction, this is a biography that reads like a meditation on the cost of genius, leaving the reader to wonder where Chekhov's life ended and his art truly began.
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What happens when one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists turns her penetrating gaze upon one of literature's most enigmatic figures? Irène Némirovsky's A Life of Chekhov chronicles the turbulent existence of Anton Chekhov — from his impoverished childhood in Taganrog, through his relentless literary ascent, to his tragic death at just forty-four — with the intimacy and narrative verve of a master storyteller. Translated by Erik de Mauny, this biography presents Chekhov not merely as an icon of Russian letters, but as a complex, contradictory man, driven simultaneously by compassion and detachment, ambition and self-doubt. Némirovsky brings a novelist's precision to the biographical form, illuminating the inner life of the man who gave the world The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, and some of the most perfectly constructed short stories ever written. Her portrayal argues that Chekhov's art was inseparable from his suffering — his chronic tuberculosis, his fraught relationships, and his uneasy position between the old Russia and the new. Written with the same quiet intensity that defines Némirovsky's own fiction, this is a biography that reads like a meditation on the cost of genius, leaving the reader to wonder where Chekhov's life ended and his art truly began.