Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ePub)

The book is intended for high school students. Doctor of philological sciences, Alexandr Chudakov introduces to students the life of Anton Chekhov. The book shows what the conditions, circumstances, experiences of childhood and adolescence have prepared a unique artistic vision of the world, as an employee of humor magazines grew a great writer, which opened a new page in the world of art.



Chudakov Alexander was born 2 February 1938 in the Kazakh SSR Shushinsk at family of teachers. Russian literary critic and novelist, an expert on Chekhov. In 1960 he graduated from the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. From 1964 he worked at the Institute of World Literature, taught at the Moscow State University, Institute of Literature. Doctor of Philology (1983). Since 1987 he works as Visiting professor at Hamburg, Michigan, Middlebury, Los Angeles, Princeton University, the Institute of Foreign Languages in Seoul.

Published as a historian of Russian literature of since 1959 in respected literary journals. In addition, he has published over two hundred articles on the history of Russian literature.

Made his debut as a writer-idyllic novel "Lies haze on the old steps" in the magazine Znamya.

Novel Lies haze on the old stage by the decision of the jury Russian Booker voted the best Russian novel of the first decade of the new century.