The structure of literary space in Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog”

Authors

  • Marco Caratozzolo University of Bari Aldo Moro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7502

Keywords:

Yalta, threshold, movement, love, sea

Abstract

The article focuses on Anton Chekhov’s short story The Lady with the Little Dog, about which the author puts forward a new hypothesis, based on Likhatchov’s and Lotman’s theories on perception and representation of Russian freedom and literary space. Particular attention is paid to the literary motif of the threshold (middle ground), which in this short story permits to disclose some elements of Chekhov’s original style. These elements enlight important features of the author’s philosophy, in particular his idea of human condition.

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Author Biography

Marco Caratozzolo, University of Bari Aldo Moro

I graduated in 2000 at Bergamo State University and obtained a Phd in Comparative Slavic Literatures in 2004. I have spent some time studying and specializing at Moscow (at Gorky’s State Literature Institute), Tartu, Riga, and Paris. In 2006 I started working as a full-time researcher at the University of Bari. In 2015 I became an Associate Professor at the same University, where I teach Russian Language and Russian Culture. As for my research, I have investigated several aspects of 19th century literature, including the archetype of the joker in Dostoevsky’s works; the diffusion in Russia of Greek forger Konstatin Simonidis’s activity in the mid-19th century. I was also responsible for the new edition of Griboedov’s comedy Woe from wit and was awarded the “Lorenzo Claris Appiani” prize in 2017. More recently I published the new edition of Gorky’s memories about Lenin (Sellerio 2018) and a monograph about Tommaso Fiore's reception of Russian literature (Stilo 2019).   

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Published

2020-12-21

How to Cite

Caratozzolo, M. (2020). The structure of literary space in Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 641–661. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7502

Issue

No. 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)

Section

Varia

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