Simon Karlinsky is professor emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.Michael Henry Heim is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He is the author of Contemporary Czech and the translator of many works, including Dubravka Ugresic's Fording the Stream of Consciousness and In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories, also published by Northwestern University Press.

• Introduction - the gentle subversive; the Taganrog metamorphis; the medical student who wrote for humour magazines; serious literature; success as a playwright - "Ivanov"; a sense of literary freedom; the journey to Sakhalin; Western Europe; the busy years; settled life; "The Seagull"; the inescapable diagnosis; Nice, the Dreyfus case; Yalta; "Three Sisters"; marriage; "The Cherry Orchard".

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   I huvudet på Tjechov

   Trots femtio år på nacken så är det här urvalet av Tjechovs omfattande brevväxling en av de bästa källorna att lära känna författarens tankevärld - exponerad i brev fr.a. till kollegor och förläggare.

   Jan

   22 maj 2024