The three contemporaries outlived Russian playwright and short-story writer Chekhov (1860-1904) by a number of years, into a new cultural phase that is called the Russian Silver Age. Scholars
of Russian literature, some in Russia and some elsewhere, explore what they said about him, and what their work suggests they thought but did not say. Among the topics are Rozanov's reading of
Chekhov as kind and quiet, why he was afraid of Chekhov, Chekhov and Merezhkovskii as representatives of two types of artistic-philosophical consciousness, an illuminating misinterpretation in
his literary criticism of Chekhov, Shestov on Chekhov and Chekhov on Shestov, and the two of them as philosophy's enemies. The anthology is not indexed. Distributed in the US by Books
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