Ebook {Epub PDF} Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov

“As a work of literature, Sakhalin Island is a masterpiece of restrained, dignified, unsentimental prose a work of complete seriousness, full of clear, humane, practical suggestions for reform.” ―The Observer “Mr Reeve's work reminds one that Chekhov was as great a master of the documentary genre – and also of the best academic prose – as of drama and narrative fiction /5(63). I’ve recently read a number of Anton Chekhov’s plays. This, coupled with Cédric Gras’ excellent L'hiver aux trousses (Essais - Documents) (French Edition), which concerned, in part, his modern day travels on Sakhalin Island, proved to be the impetus for me to read Chekhov’s classic travel and ethnographic study of the island, based on his extensive visit in the summer of /5(67). Sakhalin Island is beautifully restrained and unsentimental. It is tremendous. It is haunting. "In , the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin/5.

Back in , Anton Chekhov set out on a journey to the "prison island" of Sakhalin, to investigate the penal conditions in the Russian Far East and raise awareness about the inhumane treatment of inmates there. In , he published the book Sakhalin Island, which The New Yorker recently named the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century. In , the year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia, and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with. It was May and Chekhov was on his way to Sakhalin, an island north of Japan which was then a huge Russian penal colony. For the stir-crazy, his trip is a consoling reminder of travel's hazards.

Sakhalin Island (Russian: Остров Сахалин) is a book by Anton Chekhov written and published in – It consists of "travel notes" written after Chekhov's trip to the island of Sakhalin in summer and autumn of The book is based on the writer's personal travel experience, as well as on extensive statistical data collected by him. Overview. In , the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates. In the spring of Anton Chekhov ( ) left Moscow and traveled to Sakhalin, an island on the eastern coast of Russia. At the time Sakhalin was used by the authorities as a penal colony. Chekhov wanted to go there for three months to make a census of the involuntary population of the island. So if no-one went to Sakhalin voluntarily, why did Chekhov, who already knew he had tuberculosis, want to go there?.