Alexander Chudakov (1938–2005) — Doctor of Philology, an authoritative literary scholar and prose writer, one of the leading experts on Anton Chekhov’s legacy.
The book is devoted to a comprehensive examination of the artistic worlds of writers and the key principle that determines the structure of each of them. It brings together original and precise observations on the poetics of Pushkin, Gogol, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. In the second part, essays are presented on outstanding Russian philologists—pioneers in the study of poetics: A. Potebnya, V. Shklovsky, and V. Vinogradov.