Why Sakhalin?
Joseph Frank
- Chekhov: Scenes from a Life by Rosamund Bartlett
Free Press, 395 pp, £20.00, July 2004, ISBN 0 7432 3074 4 - Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips
Penguin, 552 pp, £12.99, June 2004, ISBN 0 14 044922 1
Chekhov biographers are lucky: they don’t have to face the problem of spending a good deal of time studying the life of someone they are liable to end up disliking intensely. Lawrence Thompson was selected by Robert Frost to be his official biographer: after literally living with his subject, the biographer found the poet to be very far from admirable; and the work he produced bore clear evidence of this shift in sentiment.
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