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Breaking Free from Death : The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer / Galina Rylkova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rylkova, Galina, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Authors, Russian--19th century--Attitudes.
- Authors, Russian.
- Death in literature.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- A Confession.
- About Chekhov.
- Anna Karenina.
- Dante.
- Gogol.
- Liberation of Tolstoy.
- Meyerhold.
- Psychology of Creative Personality;Death;Creativity;Sustainability;Chekhov;Bunin;Tolstoy.
- Russian drama.
- Russian literature.
- The Cherry Orchard.
- The Death of Ivan Ilych.
- The Decembrists.
- The Kreutzer Sonata.
- The Life of Arseniev.
- The Seagull.
- The Steppe.
- Uncle Vanya.
- War and Peace.
- Writer's Block.
- anxieties.
- existentialism.
- hypochondria.
- letters.
- literary theory.
- mortality.
- psychoanalysis.
- psychology.
- the Divine Comedy.
- writing.
- Local Subjects:
- A Confession.
- About Chekhov.
- Anna Karenina.
- Dante.
- Gogol.
- Liberation of Tolstoy.
- Meyerhold.
- Psychology of Creative Personality;Death;Creativity;Sustainability;Chekhov;Bunin;Tolstoy.
- Russian drama.
- Russian literature.
- The Cherry Orchard.
- The Death of Ivan Ilych.
- The Decembrists.
- The Kreutzer Sonata.
- The Life of Arseniev.
- The Seagull.
- The Steppe.
- Uncle Vanya.
- War and Peace.
- Writer's Block.
- anxieties.
- existentialism.
- hypochondria.
- letters.
- literary theory.
- mortality.
- psychoanalysis.
- psychology.
- the Divine Comedy.
- writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Breaking Free from Death
- CHAPTER 1: Leo Tolstoy and the Privilege of Formidable Hypochondria
- CHAPTER 2: In Chertkov's Grip
- CHAPTER 3: Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability
- CHAPTER 4: "Homo Sachaliensis": Chekhov's "Character" as a Strategy
- CHAPTER 5: The Steppe as a Story of Humble and Spectacular Beginnings
- Photographs
- CHAPTER 6: Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold's Eyes
- CHAPTER 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
- CHAPTER 8: "There is a way out": The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century
- CHAPTER 9: A Boring Story: Chekhov's Trip to Germany in 1904
- Epilogue Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-64469-265-1
- OCLC:
- 1131868022
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