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Chekhov, Anton: Tchekhov.(Brief article)(Book review)
From: Biography
Date: 20080322
Author:Salino, Brigitte
Chekhov, Anton: Tchekhov. Virgil Tanase. Paris: Folio-biographies, 2007. 404 pp. Euro8, 40. Yet another biography of Chekhov? But one never tires of him. Tanase consulted archives in Moscow, didn't learn much there, but drew from the letters and books of Chekhov's friends an extraordinary gallery of portraits, which is the better part of his book. As for Chekhov, he shows a man without illusions, who regrets not having (contrary to his friends Tolstoi and Gorki) an ideal, but who knows he cannot and must not do otherwise than describe reality as it is. A man with a redoubtable ...
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