Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

Name: Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
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ISBN: 9780226568195

ISBN-10: 0226568199

ISBN-13: 9780226568195

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kirin Narayan

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Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer—but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing—an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis—anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers, and his venture into nonfiction through his book Sakhalin Island. By closely attending to the people who lived under the appalling conditions of the Russian penal colony on Sakhalin, Chekhov showed how empirical details combined with a literary flair…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English