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03688aam a2200481 i 4500 001 61A2E230DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 191107t20202020maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019043803 020 $a 9781644692660 020 $a 164469266X 020 $a 1644692643 020 $a 9781644692646 035 $a (OCoLC)1122178855 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d DLC $d BDF $d OCLCO $d GUA $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a PG3415.D42 $b R95 2020 082 00 $a 891.709/003 $2 23 100 1 $a Rylkova, Galina, $e author. 245 10 $a Breaking free from death : $b the art of being a successful Russian writer / $c Galina Rylkova. 264 1 $a Brookline, MA : $b Academic Studies Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xviii, 185 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: Breaking Free from Death -- Part One: Beginnings and Endings. 1. Leo Tolstoy and the Privilege of Formidable Hypochondria -- 2. In Chertkov's Grip -- 3. Uncle Vanya: The Drama of Sustainability -- 4. "Homo Sachaliensis": Chekhov's "Character" as a Strategy -- 5. The Steppe as a Story of Humble and Spectacular Beginnings -- Part Two: Transcending Death. 6. Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold's Eyes -- 7. Living with Tolstoy and Dying with Chekhov: Ivan Bunin's Liberation of Tolstoy (1937) and About Chekhov (1953) as Two Modes of Auto/Biographical Writing -- 8. "There is a way out": The Cherry Orchard in the Twenty-First Century -- 9. A Boring Story: Chekhov's Trip to Germany in 1904 -- Epilogue: Oyster Fever: Chekhov and Turgenev. 600 10 $a Tolstoy, Leo, $c graf, $d 1828-1910 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, $d 1860-1904 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, $d 1860-1904. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00045578 600 17 $a Tolstoy, Leo, $c graf, $d 1828-1910. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00037938 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Death in literature. 650 0 $a Authors, Russian $y 19th century $x Attitudes. 650 0 $a Death $x Psychological aspects. 650 7 $a Authors, Russian $x Attitudes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822304 650 7 $a Death in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888697 650 7 $a Death $x Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888643 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rylkova, Galina. $t Breaking free from death $d Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2020. $z 9781644692653 $w (DLC) 2019043804 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61A2E230DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search