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Article: A new perspective on Chekhov.(Chekhov: Scenes from a Life)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- July 1, 2005
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Chekhov: Scenes from a Life. Rosamund Bartlett. Simon and Schuster. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxxii + 395 pages. ISBN 0-7432-3074-4.
Globalisation and free trade provide, for the scholar as much as the economist, new delights and new dangers. Chekhov is now more available than ever, in the form of 'hundreds of memoirs, twelve volumes of annotated letters, articles, monographs, and copious other sources', and in the meticulous scholarship of biographies by Ronald Hingley, Ernest J Simmons and Donald Rayfield, who have rescued the man from the lingering aura of Soviet canonisation. What, then, remains for Rosamund Bartlett? Already a distinguished Slavist in general ...