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Peter Urban

Anton Cechov: A Chronicle

About His Life and Work

Published by Diogenes as Cechov-Chronik

Original Title: Cechovs Leben 1860-1904

For a man who said of himself that he suffered from a disease called autobiographobia, this chronicle represents the ideal biography. A documentation of his life and works, constructed with the utmost precision and succinctness. The appendix includes an epilogue, the table of contents of Chekhov's first Russian annotated edition and a complete bibliography of German translations.

Biographies, Classics
480 pages
1981

978-3-257-01607-9

Peter

Urban

Peter Urban was born in 1941 in Berlin. As one of the best-known German translators and editors of Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Czech literature, he has received many awards, among others, an honorary doctorate from the University of Regensburg and the ›Commendation Award‹ at the ›Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding‹ in the year 2000. Peter Urban died on the 9th of December 2013 in Weidmoss, Germany.

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Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, Hamburg

Astonishing material: Chekhov, as he rises before us in this work, is one of the most incredible figures of Russian intellectual history.