San Antonio College Library

First English translation of the literary memoirs of the great Russian novelist. Includes an essay on Turgenev by Edmund Wilson.

Mr. David Magarshack's biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky is based on a mass of material that has become available only recently with the publication of the fourth and final volume of his letters and the latest research into the origins of some of the ideas that are closely associated with Dostoevsky's writings. Mr. Magarshack's new biography is valuable for giving a careful and unbiased account of Dostoevsky's private life without over-stepping the bounds...

Rosamund Bartlett is steeped in Chekhov's writings, having worked as a translator and lecturer on the culture and history of nineteenth-century Russia. She has written not simply another biography of Chekhov but brought new understanding to the writings and character of the man, set amidst the formidable landscape of the Russia he loved. This is a book of enormous detail about the places Chekhov visited and lived in, which is vital for a good understanding...

Biography of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period.

"Examining Chekhov's life within the context of his art, Mr. Callow finds him astonishingly modern: the new kind of man, uncomfortable in the world and refusing to sentimentalize his unease. But the love theme that is central to his biography and his art, which Mr. Callow explores with a novelist's skills and sensitivities, has been somehow slighted by Chekhov scholars. It is the hidden ground from which his work sprang and on which his divided life...

A critical biography of the great Russian writer, tracing his dual career as practicing physician and man of letters, and examining the relation of this private life to his short stories and plays. Bibliographys.