Two Readings of Chekhov: Bulgakov, Shestov, and Contrasting Visions of Hope
This paper compares Sergei Bulgakov's and Lev Shestov's contrasting interpretations of Chekhov, arguing that Bulgakov's patient, cumulative reading of the author's work as containing oblique religious hope offers a more ethically faithful and textually comprehensive methodology than Shestov's totalizing thesis of unrelenting hopelessness.