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Chapter 3 - An “Indeterminate Situation”

Chekhov’s Illness and Death

from Part I - Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2023

By
Michael Finke
Edited by
Yuri Corrigan
Yuri Corrigan
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Michael Finke provides an account of the fatal illness that overshadowed almost the whole of Chekhov’s career and resulted in his early death at the age of forty-four. Finke traces the course of the illness, Chekhov’s correspondence, and the testimony of those around him, reflecting on Chekhov’s reticence and stoicism with regard to his illness in the context of his views of mortality, degeneration, and the body.

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Chekhovdeathillnesstuberculosismedicine
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Chekhov in Context , pp. 25 - 32
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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