Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

by Kirin Narayan

Book Overview

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer--but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing--an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis--anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226568199
• ISBN13: 9780226568195
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"