يعول ويعاني من مرض السل الذي قتله وهو في الرابعة والأربعين من عمره. لقد كان واحدًا من أعظم الكتاب المسرحيين وكتاب القصة القصيرة على الإطلاق، لكنه كان ممزقًا بين الطب والأدب، كما كان بين العائلة والأصدقاء، بين الحنين إلى العزلة والحاجة إلى الرفقة. عندما كان طفلاً، كانت حياته العائلية في بعض الأحيان تتحول إلى جحيم بسبب أب وحشي، وأخت متملك، وإخوة أكبر جانحين؛ كانت حياته البالغة متوازنة بشكل متعرج بين عواطف سلسلة من العشيقات والزواج من ممثلة لم تكن شاعرية كما تم رسمها تقليديًا. السيرة الذاتية التي كتبها دونالد رايفيلد تزيل الطلاء من صورة تشيخوف وتبين لنا ما يكمن وراء واجهته المقيدة والمثيرة للسخرية. والنتيجة لا تشوه سمعته ولكنها تظهره في البطولة الكاملة لحياته القصيرة والإبداعية المذهلة. أمضى رايفيلد أكثر من ثلاث سنوات في تمشيط أرشيفات تشيخوف في جميع أنحاء روسيا (كان تشيخوف مسافرًا لا يهدأ طوال حياته، متجهًا من سيبيريا إلى كوت دازور) وكشف عن آلاف الوثائق والرسائل من محبي تشيخوف وأصدقائه. والعائلة، لم يُنشر معظمها من قبل، والتي تحكي بشكل تراكمي عن حياة أكثر تشابكًا واضطرابًا مما كنا نظن من قبل. تمت استعادة الاقتطاعات العديدة التي تم إجراؤها في الطبعات السوفيتية والأجنبية لرسائل تشيخوف وزوجته؛ ما كان مخفيًا تم كشفه الآن.
ترجمة بواسطة مترجم الكتاب الإلكتروني; Translated by Ebook Translator: https://translator.bookfere.com; جروب روايات بوليسية-مترجمة آليا

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Anton Chekhov : a life

Rayfield, Donald

Donald Rayfield

Northwestern University Press

Marlboro Press, The

TriQuarterly Books

Hydra Books

United States, United States of America

1, FR, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-639) and index.
Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1998.

<p>Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles - both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at age forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short-story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. When he was a child, his family life was at times made a hell by a monstrous father, a possessive sister, and delinquent elder brothers; his own adult life was tortuously balanced between the affections of a series of mistresses and a marriage to an actress that was not as idyllic as it has traditionally been painted. Donald Rayfield's biography strips the whitewash from the image of Chekhov and shows us what lay behind his restrained, ironic facade. The result does not denigrate him but shows him in the full heroism of his brief, prodigiously creative life. Rayfield has spent more than three years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia (Chekhov was a restless traveler for the whole of his life, going from Siberia to the Cote d'Azur) and has uncovered thousands of documents and letters from Chekhov's lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before, which cumulatively tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected. The many cuts made in Soviet and foreign editions of Chekhov's and his wife's letters have been restored; what once was hidden is now revealed.</p> <h3>(Sunday Times) - Arthur Miller</h3> <p>Full of fascinating surprises. It is hard to imagine another book about Chekhov after this one .... A sculpted likeness of a most human genius shown in the context of his time.</p>

"Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles - both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at age forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short-story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. When he was a child, his family life was at times made a hell by a monstrous father, a possessive sister, and delinquent elder brothers; his own adult life was tortuously balanced between the affections of a series of mistresses and a marriage to an actress that was not as idyllic as it has traditionally been painted." "Donald Rayfield's biography strips the whitewash from the image of Chekhov and shows us what lay behind his restrained, ironic facade. The result does not denigrate him but shows him in the full heroism of his brief, prodigiously creative life. Rayfield has spent more than three years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia (Chekhov was a restless traveler for the whole of his life, going from Siberia to the Cote d'Azur) and has uncovered thousands of documents and letters from Chekhov's lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before, which cumulatively tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected. The many cuts made in Soviet and foreign editions of Chekhov's and his wife's letters have been restored; what once was hidden is now revealed."--Jacket.

Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is a man capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and family, a man who craved with equal passion the company of others and the solitude necessary to create his art. Based on information from Chekhov archives throughout Russia, Rayfield's work has been hailed as a groundbreaking examination of the life of a literary master.A new biography of the great author and playwright.

2025-02-05