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by Philip Callow

Author: Philip Callow
Language: English
ISBN: 1566631874
ISBN13: 978-1566631877
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee; First Edition edition (May 1, 1998)
Pages: 443
Category: Humanities
Subcategory: Other
Rating: 4.4
Votes: 986
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Philip Callow s new biography of Russia s greatest dramatist and storyteller is a major achievement

Philip Callow s new biography of Russia s greatest dramatist and storyteller is a major achievement. By examining Chekhov s life within the context of the evolution of his art, Mr. Callow makes the reader acutely aware of the hidden ground from which Chekhov s work sprang and on which his divided life stood. Philip Callow s new biography of Russia s greatest dramatist and storyteller is a major achievement.

Philip Callow's Chekhov: The Hidden Ground provides a fine biography of Russia's dramatist, examining his life within the context of his work and considering his divided world and achievements. Plenty of titles have analyzed his works: this provides essential clues to understanding his personality.

Philip Callow's book gives so many new details about Chekhov, that one comes away with a new perspective into the personality of this magnificent writer.

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Chekhov : The Hidden Ground. Philip Callow's new biography of Russia's greatest dramatist and storyteller is a major achievement. By examining Chekhov's life within the context of the evolution of his art, Mr. Callow makes the reader acutely aware of the hidden ground from which Chekhov's work sprang and on which his divided life stood. Arthur Miller calls Chekhov "in nearly every way our contemporary. Examining Chekhov's life within the context of his art, Mr. Callow finds him astonishingly modern: the new kind of man, uncomfortable in the world and refusing to sentimentalize his unease.

Callow covers the usual ground: Chekhov's youth in Taganrog, his move to Moscow, medical school, family affairs, the .

Callow covers the usual ground: Chekhov's youth in Taganrog, his move to Moscow, medical school, family affairs, the writing life, and his marriage to the actress Olga Knipper.

Chekhov: The Hidden Ground. ISBN 10: 0094767408, ISBN 13: 9780094767409.

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Philip Callow's new biography of Russia's greatest dramatist and storyteller is a major achievement. By examining Chekhov's life within the context of the evolution of his art, Mr. Callow makes the reader acutely aware of the hidden ground from which Chekhov's work sprang and on which his divided life stood. Arthur Miller calls Chekhov “in nearly every way our contemporary.” His irony is as modern as Beckett's; as a letter writer he is as natural and irresistible as D. H. Lawrence. In his personal life he is as understated as in his work. But the love theme that is central to his biography and his art is profoundly convincing and humane, but in his own life he holds back coldly and perhaps fearfully from real commitment. He constantly surprises us: a modest genius who finds the whole nature of fame unseemly; a man furious at injustice who is apolitical; a humorist in despair before the mediocrity, stupidity, and cruelty of the world; a generous spirit unable to stop working to improve the lot of others, incapable of turning anyone away, who remains stubbornly apart and hidden. Readers of Mr. Callow's Chekhov will find it a supremely satisfying biography, beautifully told.

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My interest in Russian literature began 35 years ago with the discovery of a Russian writer whose work was so very different from Tolsoy, Turgenev, and Gogal,...Anton Chekhov. I own, and have read many times, four different author's views on the life of Antosha. Philip Callow's book gives so many new details about Chekhov, that one comes away with a new perspective into the personality of this magnificent writer. If you are enjoy reading Chekhov and about Chekhov, I heartally recommend this book!

Matty

To some extent, the act of writing a biography is inherently celebratory. But Callow's worshipful attitude towards his subject creates a bland, two-dimensional representation of the man. It reads less like scholarship than hero-worship (...).
Callow's appreciation of Chekov's genius and his praise for the artist are not unseemly, but the too-facile manner in which he deflects the many criticisms leveled against Chekov make us lose sight of the "other Chekov," the inglorious one, who is equally as important, if often less attractive, than the idealized man Callow presents.
In addition--and almost an afterthought in light of the failings described above--Callow's analyses of Chekov's work are often obtuse and, almost without exception, unoriginal.