Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work of tremendous importance which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's subsequent work and on Russian society.
Sakhalin Island should be compulsory reading for all those who are anywhere and in any way involved with the so-called penal system-- Heinrich Boell Sakhalin Island shows off the breadth of Chekhov's reading as well as the depth of his fieldwork... This is a much needed new annotated translation. * The Independent * As a work of literature, Sakhalin Island is a masterpiece of restrained, dignified, unsentimental prose... a work of complete seriousness, full of clear, humane, practical suggestions for reform. * The Observer * The best work of journalism written in the 19th century. * The New Yorker * Mr Reeve's work reminds one that Chekhov was as great a master of the documentary genre - and also of the best academic prose - as of drama and narrative fiction... Sakhalin Island will never eclipse The Cherry Orchard. But it is every bit as impressive a masterpiece, and this new version will surely make its merits more widely known. * Times Literary Supplement * Sakhalin Island is the work of a sensible and sympathetic recorder of the facts, and Mr Reeve has done us a favour in his handsome and useful edition. -- Stephen Tumm, Former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons What writers influenced me as a young man? Chekhov! As a dramatist? Chekhov! As a story writer? Chekhov! -- Tennessee Williams
Anton Chekhov is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847492913 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847492916 |
| Title | Sakhalin Island |
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Classics |
| Year published | 2013-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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