The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

FURTHER READING

Gordon McVay (tr.), Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters (London: Folio Society, 1994), the best selection and translation of letters.

Brian Reeves (tr.), The Island of Sakhalin (Cambridge: Ian Faulkner, 1993).

Bowdlerized sections of letters restored in Donald Rayfield, ‘Sanitising the Classics’, in Comparative Criticism, 16, Cambridge (1994), pp. 19–32.

SECONDARY LITERATURE: GENERAL BOOKS

Cynthia Carlile, Sharon McKee and Andrei Turkov, Anton Chekhov and His Times (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995).

Toby W. Clyman, A Chekhov Companion (Westport/London: Greenwood Press, 1985), a very valuable if expensive collection of essays, with extensive bibliography.

P. Debreczeny and T. Eekman (eds), Chekhov’s Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays (Columbus: Slavica, 1977) – among many fine contributions a notable essay is T. Winner’s ‘Syncretism in Chekhov’s Art: A Study of Polystructured Texts’, pp. 153–66.

Thomas Eekman (ed.), Critical Essays on Anton Chekhov (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989), 208 pp.

W. Gerhardie, Anton Chekhov: A Critical Study (London: MacDonald, 1974), ‘Bloomsbury’ Chekhov, but well informed.

Michael Henry Heim and Simon Karlinsky (trs. and eds.), Anton Chekhov’s Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1973).

Ronald Hingley, A New Life of Anton Chekhov (London: Oxford University Press, 1976).

R. L. Jackson, Chekhov: A Collection of Essays: 20th-Century Views (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1967).

R. L. Jackson (ed.), Reading Chekhov’s Text (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993).

S. Koteliansky (tr., ed.), Anton Chekhov: Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences (New York: Blom, 1968).

Virginia Llewellyn-Smith, Chekhov and the Lady with the Little Dog (London: Oxford University Press, 1973).

Carolina de Maegd-Soëp, Chekhov and Women (Columbus: Slavica, 1987).

Charles Meister, Chekhov Criticism 1880 Through 1986 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1988).

V. S. Pritchett, Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).

Donald Rayfield, Anton Chekhov: A Life (London: HarperCollins, 1997).

Savely Senderovich and Munir Sendich (eds), Anton Chekhov Rediscovered: A Collection of New Studies with a Comprehensive Bibliography (East Lansing, Mich.: Russian Language Journal, 1987).

L. Shestov, Anton Chekhov and Other Essays (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966).

E. J. Simmons, Chekhov: A Biography (London: Jonathan Cape, 1966, and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).

C. J. G. Turner, Time and Temporal Structure in Chekhov (Department of Russian Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, 1994).

R. and N. Wellek (eds), Chekhov: New Perspectives (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984), anthology of essays with useful bibliography.

T. Winner, Chekhov and his Prose (New York: Holt, 1966).

Nick Worrall, File on Chekhov (London: Methuen, 1986).

ARTICLES

Petr Bitsilli, ‘From Chekhonte to Chekhov’ in V. Erlich (ed.), Twentieth-Century Russian Literary Criticism (London: Yale University Press, 1975), 317 pp.

Thomas Eekman, ‘The Narrator and the Hero in Chekhov’s Prose’ in California Slavic Studies, 8, Berkeley, California (1975), pp. 93–129.

M. Fink, ‘The Hero’s Descent to the Underworld in Chekhov’ in The Russian Review, 53:1, Columbus, Ohio (January 1994), pp. 67–80.

WORKS ON INDIVIDUAL STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

‘The Bishop’

N. A. Nilsson Studies in Chekhov’s Narrative Technique: ‘The Steppe’ and ‘The Bishop’ (Stockholm: Alquist & Wiksell, 1968).

Peter Stowell, ‘Chekhov’s “The Bishop”: The Annihilation of Faith and Identity through Time’, Studies in Short Fiction, 12 (1975), pp. 117–22.

‘The Bride’

Robert L. Jackson, ‘“The Betrothed”: Chekhov’s Last Testament’ in Savely Senderovich and Munir Sendich (eds.), Anton Chekhov Rediscovered: A Collection of New Studies with a Comprehensive Bibliography (East Lansing, Mich.: Russian Language Journal, 1987), pp. 51–62.

Gordon McVay, ‘Chekhov’s Last Two Stories: Dreaming of Happiness’ in Nicholas Luker (ed.), The Short Story in Russia, 1900–1917 (Nottingham: Astra Press, 1991), pp. 1–22.

‘The House with the Mezzanine’

Paul Debreczeny, ‘Chekhov’s Use of Impressionism in “The House with the Mansard”’ in Russian Narrative and Visual Art: Varieties of Seeing, ed. Roger Anderson and Paul Debreczeny (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 101–23.

‘In the Ravine’

Paul Debreczeny, ‘The Device of Conspicuous Silence in Tolstoj, Cexov, and Faulkner’ in V. Terras (ed.), American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, Vol. 2: Literature (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978), pp. 125–45.

Hugh McLean, ‘Chekhov’s “In the Ravine”: Six Antipodes’ in W. E. Harkins (ed.), American Contributions to the Sixth International Congress of Slavists, Vol. 2: Literary Contributions (The Hague: Mouton, 1968), pp. 285–305.

‘Ionych’

Alexandar Mihailovic, ‘Eschatology and Entombment in “Ionych”’ in R. L. Jackson (ed.), Reading Chekhov’s Text (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993), pp. 103–14.

‘The Lady with the Little Dog’

C. R. S. Cockrell, ‘The Lady with the Dog’ in C. R. S. Cockrell et al. (eds.), The Voice of a Giant: Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics (University of Exeter, 1985), pp. 81–92.

Yael Greenberg, ‘The Presentation of the Unconscious in Chekhov’s “Lady with Lapdog”’, Modern Language Review, 86:1 (1991), pp. 126–30.

‘Man in a Case’, ‘Gooseberries’ and ‘About Love’

John Freedman, ‘Narrative Technique and the Art of Story-Telling in Anton Chekhov’s “Little Trilogy”’ in Thomas Eekman (ed.), Critical Essays on Anton Chekhov (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989), pp. 103–11.

David E. Maxwell, ‘The Unity of Chekhov’s “Little Trilogy”’ in Paul Debreczeny and Thomas Eekman (eds.), Chekhov’s Art of Writing (Columbus: Slavica, 1977), pp. 35–53.

‘Peasants’

John Wm. Harrison, ‘Symbolic Action in Chekhov’s “Peasants” and “In the Ravine”’, Modern Fiction Studies, 7:4 (Winter 1961), pp. 369–72.

L. M. O’Toole, ‘Chekhov: The Peasants’ in Structure, Style and Interpretation in the Russian Short Story (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), pp. 203–20.