In Chekhov’s shadow: Yelena Shavrova as a “second-class” writer

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  • Анатолий Собенников Военный институт Железнодорожных войск и военных путей сообщения, Кафедра иностранных и русского языков, 198511 Петергоф, ул. Суворовская, 1, 0000-0002-8202-4043

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.11.11

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Anton Chekhov, Yelena Shavrova, editing, eventfulness, gender psychology

Abstract

The article is devoted to Anton Chekhov’s creative connection with Yelena Shavrova, for whom he edited her works and helped her have them published. Shavrova followed Chekhov’s advice: she shortened descriptions and removed fragments calculated for effect. The young writer indeed absorbed Chekhov’s artistic principles: narrating “in the spirit and tone of the character”, relinquishing external eventfulness for the sake of focusing on the characters’ psychological states, open endings. Like her mentor, Shavrova was also interested in gender issues. After Chekhov’s death, Shavrova gave up literary activities.

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Author Biography

Анатолий Собенников, Военный институт Железнодорожных войск и военных путей сообщения, Кафедра иностранных и русского языков, 198511 Петергоф, ул. Суворовская, 1, 0000-0002-8202-4043

Анатолий Самуилович Собенников – doktor habilitowany, profesor w Katedrze Języków Obcych i Języka Rosyjskiego Instytutu Wojskowego (Peterhof). Autor 2 monografii: Художественный символ в драматургии А. П. Чехова, Иркутск: Изд-во ИГУ1889; Между „есть Бог” и „нет Бога”…: о религиозно-философских традициях в творчестве А. П. Чехова, Иркутск: Изд-во ИГУ 1997; współautor monografii Извне и изнутри Сибири: А. Чехов – А. Вампилов – В. Шукшин, Ишим 2014 oraz Гуманитарный аспект современного военного образования, Санкт-Петербург 2018, a także licznych artykułów naukowych poświęconych różnym aspektom twórczości Antona Czechowa.

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2018-12-30

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Собенников, А. (2018). In Chekhov’s shadow: Yelena Shavrova as a “second-class” writer. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, (11), 111–117. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.11.11

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