Book contents
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Part III Culture
- Part IV Literature
- Part V Afterlives
- Chapter 29 Soviet Contexts
- Chapter 30 Chekhov in England
- Chapter 31 The American Stage
- Chapter 32 Chekhov in East Asia
- Chapter 33 Film
- Chapter 34 In Translation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Afterword
Chekhov’s Endings
from Part V - Afterlives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Part III Culture
- Part IV Literature
- Part V Afterlives
- Chapter 29 Soviet Contexts
- Chapter 30 Chekhov in England
- Chapter 31 The American Stage
- Chapter 32 Chekhov in East Asia
- Chapter 33 Film
- Chapter 34 In Translation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Robin Feuer Miller closes the volume with a meditation on Chekhov’s career-long search for new ways to end stories and plays, distinguishing his intervention into literary endings from the work of other major Russian writers and showing how he took great pains to craft the overtone of an “eidetic” ending, the kind that retains the sharpness of its image long after one looks away from the text.
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- Chekhov in Context , pp. 268 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023