Dantesque and Dostoevskian Elements in Chekhov’s “In Exile”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Еditor’s Note vi
4. Introduction ix
5. On Chekhov’s Art 1
6. Chekhov’s Seagull: The Empty Well, the Dry Lake, and the Cold Cave 14
7. “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: An Essay on Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle” 27
8. Dostoevsky in Chekhov’s Garden of Eden: “Because of Little Apples” 44
9. “The Betrothed”: Chekhov’s Last Testament 64
10. Chekhov and Proust: A Posing of the Problem 78
11. “The Steppe”: Space and the Journey. A Metaphor for All Times 90
12. “The Enemies”: A Story at War with Itself? 102
13. Chekhov’s “The Student” 114
14. The Ethics of Vision: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in The Island of Sakhalin 122
15. Dantesque and Dostoevskian Elements in Chekhov’s “In Exile” 129
16. Biblical and Literary Allusions in Chekhov’s “Gusev” 142
17. Russian Man at the Rendezvous: The Narrator of Chekhov’s “A Little Joke” 151
18. “Small Fry”: A Nice Little Easter Story 159
19. Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle”: “By the Rivers of Babylon” in Eastern Orthodox Liturgy 173
20. Three Deaths: A Boy, A Goose, and an Infant 180
21. A Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov’s Letters to Suvorin 195
22. “Grief”: Once Again about the Ending of the Story 200
23. Dogs: Text and Subtext in “Lady with a Pet Dog” 213
24. Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and Gurov’s Oreanda Meditations in Chekhov’s “Lady with a Pet Dog” 221
25. Afterword 227
26. Appendix: Robert Louis Jackson on “Po delam sluzhby” 236
27. Index 254