Chekhov as Ethnographer: Epistemological Crisis on Sakhalin Island
| Autor: | Cathy Popkin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Cultural Studies
Scientific enterprise Psychoanalysis History Constitution media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Ancient history 050701 cultural studies Romance 0506 political science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Ethnography 050602 political science & public administration Knight Residence media_common Pace |
| Zdroj: | Slavic Review. 51:36-51 |
| ISSN: | 2325-7784 0037-6779 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2500260 |
| Popis: | In 1890, Anton Chekhov traveled all the way across Siberia, spending five months in transit and three more in residence, to visit the penal colony on Sakhalin Island. The trip was enormously eccentric—it was dangerous, arduous, ill-advised for someone of Chekhov's delicate constitution and uncharacteristically adventuresome for someone so sedentary. Its eccentricity is heightened by the battery of cavalier explanations advanced by the writer, who justified his trip first as an attempt to erase a portion of his life, then as an effort to produce the only halfyear worth remembering, now as a mere change of pace, then as a pressing need to flee a romantic entanglement, at times as a scientific enterprise, at other times as a symptom of "Sakhalin mania." |
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