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Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics): Anton Chekhov

Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics): Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov (Author), Brian Reeve (Translator)

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Synopsis

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates. Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 528
 Edition: Annotated
 Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 24 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1847497861
ISBN 13: 9781847497864
Book Overview: Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose

Media Reviews
Mr Reeve's work reminds one that Chekhov was as great a master of the documentary genre - and also of the best academic prose - as of drama and narrative fiction ... Sakhalin Island will never eclipse The Cherry Orchard. But it is every bit as impressive a masterpiece, and this new version will surely make its merits more widely known. - TLS
Author Bio
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.