Existential Concerns in Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories
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چکیده
Abstract Existential philosophy addressed questions that either had been overlooked by traditional for a long period of time (e g the individual’s experience anxiety in face death, failure rational thinking and science to inquire essential aspects human life) or resurfaced again following disappointment caused destructions absurdity two world wars first half twentieth century pertaining meaningfulness/meaninglessness endeavour life general) Russian realist novelists Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy are often invoked among earliest existentialist thinkers, along with philosophers Søren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Drawing on works cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, this paper will examine how preoccupation death anxiety, ethics, authenticity is represented short stories Anton Chekhov, one Dostoyevsky’s Tolstoy’s younger contemporary writers
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2285-6293', '2286-0940']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2022-0007