Reading Chekhov

2002 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2001 by Janet Malcolm

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously

published material:

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher: Excerpt from Chekhov: The Hidden Ground by Philip Callow.

Copyright © 1998 by Philip Callow. Dee, Publisher.

Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.: Excerpt from “Where I’m Calling

From” from Cathedral by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1983 by Raymond Carver.

. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Northwestern University Press: Excerpt from Reading Chekhov’s Text by Robert Louis

Jackson (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by

Northwestern University Press.

Zephyr Press: Excerpt from “Requiem” from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova,

translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Robert Reeder. Copyright © 1989 by Judith

Hemschemeyer.

A portion of this work was originally published in The New Yorker.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Malcolm, Janet.

Reading Chekhov / Janet Malcolm.

p. cm.

1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.

PG3458.Z8 M.72’3—dc21 2001019585

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