Svetlana Evdokimova is a professor of Slavic studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books, including Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Philosophy, Religion and Pushkin's Historical Imagination.
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Introduction 1. Chekhov's (Anti-)Philosophy 2. Life without a Plot: The Drama of Being 3. Seagull Is a Seagull Is a Seagull: Chekhov's What Is Art? 4. Dostoevsky's Graft: "Ward Six," The Wedding, The Three Sisters, and Uncle Vania 5. Homo Laborans: The Ontology of Work in Uncle Vania and The Three Sisters 6. The Three Sisters: Being as Event 7. The Temptations of the Nursery 8. Back to the Cherry Orchard: "Let Us Cultivate Our Garden" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
The most comprehensive treatment of Chekhov's thought to date, linking his famous poetics of understatement to enduring philosophical questions. This is a mature work of scholarship, organically structured, intellectually stimulating, and highly readable, presenting a series of bracing new interpretations at perfect pitch. Any reader of Chekhov should read this book." - Carol Apollonio, author of Simply Chekhov "A comprehensive and multifaceted study of Chekhov's plays, Staging Existence underscores the subtle connection between Chekhov the thinker and Chekhov the artist, making the persuasive case that one cannot be understood without the other. Exhaustively researched, lucidly written, and convincingly argued, this is one of the most important studies of Chekhov in recent decades." - Radislav Lapushin, author of "Dew on the Grass": The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov