The Poetics and World of Anton Chekhov: Emergence and Affirmation

Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov (1938—2005) — a renowned literary scholar and writer, the foremost researcher of Anton Chekhov's works. In his monographs «The Poetics of Chekhov» (1971) and "The World of Chekhov: Emergence and Affirmation" (1986), he examines the entire oeuvre... of the writer as a cohesive system, describing the properties of its various levels — from the subject to the ideological, based on the statistical material he collected. The sensitive gaze of the researcher captures the relationships between characters and the narrator, the choice of plots, and the means of detailing the artistic space. The book also contains a biography of Alexander Pavlovich, written by the author's wife Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (literary scholar, critic, writer) and his colleague Irina Gitovich (Chekhov scholar, literary historian, critic, textologist).