Anton Chekhov

Rosamund Bartlett

Presents a selection of short stories by the Russian master, including such well-known pieces as "The Lady with the Little Dog," as well as less familiar works like "Gusev" and "Rothschild's Violin."

About Love and Other Stories

A hundred years ago in November 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remote Russian railway station, attended by the world's media, taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape his decadent (as he saw it), aristocratic family life.Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a colossus of world literature whether by his contemporaries or critics. In this exceptional biography Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on the many fascinating new sources which have been published about Tolstoy since the collapse of Communism to write about one of the most compelling, maddening, brilliant and contrary people who has ever lived. She and we discover a remarkable and long life in one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods of Russian history, straddling the 19th and early 20th centuries. Tolstoy spent that life rebelling - not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but against traditional education and eventually against family life, organised religion and the state.

A Russian Life

Tolstoy

Rosamund Bartlett is steeped in Chekhov's writings, having worked as a translator, and in the culture and history of 19th-century Russia. She has written not simply another biography of Chekhov but brought new understanding to the writings and character of Chekhov set amidst the landscape of Russia. This is a book of enormous detail about the places Chekhov visited and lived in, which is vital for a good understanding of the character of this unusual and complex man. Examining these locations also informs and widens interpretation of the short stories. The author examines with careful precision Chekhov's genius, and shows that he is not simply the gloomy writer of popular myth but one with profound humanity and humour.

Scenes from a Life

Chekhov

In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a privileged aristocratic family, he seemed set to join the ranks of degenerate Russian noblemen, but fighting in the Crimean war alongside rank and file soldiers opened his eyes to Russia's social problems and he threw himself into teaching the peasantry to read and write. After his marriage he wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, both regarded as two of the greatest novels in world literature. Rosamund Bartlett's exceptional biography of this brilliant, maddening and contrary man draws on key Russian sources, including the many fascinating new materials which have been published about Tolstoy and his legacy since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Publicada en su versión original inglesa en 2004 para conmemorar el centenario de la muerte de Antón Chéjov, esta nueva y extraordinaria biografía enriquece ahora el panorama editorial español como la única y más completa disponible en castellano del escritor ruso. Chéjov, escenas de una vida ofrece un cuadro enormemente convincente no solo del hombre, sino también de los lugares en los que éste vivió y trabajó. Las descripciones de la región de Taganrog y de las estepas meridionales rusas; de las ciudades de Moscú y San Petersburgo; de Siberia; de la Riviera francesa y de Yalta configuran y amplían nuestra interpretación de su obra. Emerge así el genio de Chéjov en toda su rica complejidad, avivado por la tensión creativa que le hizo anhelar, por un lado, el contacto con sus semejantes y, por otro, rehuirlos y disfrutar de la soledad. Un siglo después de su muerte, la visión del mundo y el estilo de Chéjov resultan más certeros que nunca, plenamente maduros para ser redescubiertos en todo su esplendor. Ésta es, pues, una obra esencial para llegar a comprender por entero al escritor y su obra en su auténtico contexto. Por encima de todo, le devuelve el humor, la calidez y la cercanía a un hombre considerado con demasiada frecuencia meramente melancólico, y nos recuerda por qué Raymond Carver le describió como "el mejor escritor de relatos que ha existido jamás".

Escenas de una vida

Chéjov

Leverhulme Research Fellow in Russian Cultural History Rosamund Bartlett

This volume presents recent research into Dmitri Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) and work by leading British, American, Russian, and Israeli scholars. It is occasioned by the ever-growing interest in a composer whose significance in and for the history of twentieth-century music is, as Richard Taruskin has commented, immense, possibly unparalleled and above all, continuing. The authors of the thirteen articles are musicologists, Russian literature specialists, biographers, and cultural historians, whose diverse fields of expertise are reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of the materials collected here. The collection presents Shostakovich and his legacy in a variety of different contexts and its interdisciplinary nature will also serve to open up discussion. In this way, it breaks from previous tendencies to focus on the purely extrinsic qualities of the composers musical oeuvre, which has so often been interpreted in terms of autobiography. The chapters span the composers entire career and contain substantial amounts of new information about Shostakovich and his musical legacy.

Shostakovich in Context

Bir Rus Hayati

eine Biographie

Anton Čechov

Rosamund Bartlett is steeped in Chekhov's writings, having worked as a translator and lecturer on the culture and history of nineteenth-century Russia. She has written not simply another biography of Chekhov but brought new understanding to the writings and character of the man, set amidst the formidable landscape of the Russia he loved. This is a book of enormous detail about the places Chekhov visited and lived in, which is vital for a good understanding of the character of this unusual and complex man. The author examines with careful precision Chekhov's genius, and shows that he is not simply the gloomy writer of popular myth but one with profound humanity and humour.

“Se o mundo pudesse escrever sua própria história, ele escreveria como Tolstói”, disse o jornalista e escritor russo Isaac Babel sobre um dos mais importantes nomes da literatura universal, Liev Tolstói, cuja vida é retratada por Rosamund Bartlett em Tolstói, a biografia, lançamento da Biblioteca Azul. Nascido em uma família aristocrática em 1828 e órfão de ambos os pais aos 8 anos de idade, Liev passou de um jovem impulsivo a grande escritor e até mesmo profeta. À época de sua morte, em novembro de 1910, era o homem mais famoso de toda Rússia. Para além de debruçar-se sobre a concepção de seus grandes romances, como Guerra e paz (1869) e Anna Kariênina (1877), em Tolstói, a biografia, Bartlett destrincha os diferentes períodos da vida do escritor, mostrando sua vinculação com a sociedade russa e trazendo informações pouco conhecidas ou lembradas. Entre elas, histórias de antepassados pitorescos que seriam modelos de personagens de sua ficção, uma juventude marcada por amores e grandes prejuízos nos cassinos, sua preocupação com a educação dos russos (fundou escolas, estudou as teorias pedagógicas e organizou uma cartilha com a pretensão de que se tornasse a base da educação nacional) e até mesma uma campanha humanitária que organizou para combater a miséria causada pela seca na região de Samara, na estepe russa. Liev Tolstói não foi um gigante só no campo literário – lembrando que foi contemporâneo de escritores como Dostoiévski, Turguéniev, Tchékhov, Dickens e Balzac –, foi um dos homens mais importantes da Rússia de seu tempo, em muitos momentos considerado um resumo e um modelo arquetípico do país. A presença de Tolstói na vida russa foi tão ostensiva que ele inspirou uma seita com milhares de seguidores, o tolstoísmo, uma espécie de cristianismo radical. Tolstói, a biografia traz ainda, entre seus materiais complementares, uma cronologia, árvore genealógica das famílias de Tolstói e de Sônia Berhs (a esposa com quem teve um atribulado relacionamento), indicações de leituras complementares, iconografia e índice remissivo.

Tolstói, a biografia

Writer and Translator Rosamund Bartlett

This book explores the influence of the composer Richard Wagner on Russian writers, musicians and artists.

Rosamund Bartlett

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