Breaking Free from Death

The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer

Galina Rylkova (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2020
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-266-0 (ISBN)

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Examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and their literary characters must face in order to preserve their integrity while attempting to achieve fame and success.

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.

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.

Acknowledgements
Prologue: Breaking Free from Death
Part One: Beginnings and Endings
1. 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 Beginnings
Part Two: Transcending Death
6. 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 1904
Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-64469-266-X / 164469266X
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-266-0 / 9781644692660
Zustand	Neuware