Tjechov A. Ön Sachalin

Author	Tjechov A.
Title	Ön Sachalin
Description	In 1890, the thirty-year-old physician and writer Anton Chekhov embarked on a grueling eleven-week journey from Moscow through Siberia to the penal colony on Sakhalin Island, located in the Sea of Okhotsk off the eastern coast of Siberia. The goal was to study the conditions in the infamous penal colony. His travel notes, published in a journal between 1893 and 1894, describe his three-month stay on the island. Sakhalin Island is a detailed portrayal of the tsarist penal system. Chekhov interviewed thousands of convicts and settlers in the colony. His outrage at the harsh conditions, the punishments, and the forced prostitution of many women is not concealed, despite the restrained tone. Sakhalin Island, one of the great journalistic achievements of the 19th century, is a most vivid testimony to the vulnerability of people. There are few direct reflections of the journey in Chekhov's short stories and plays, but everything he wrote thereafter would be added to and read in the light of Sakhalin. The translation to Swedish by Hans Björkegren and Victor Bohm has been revised for this edition by Chekhov scholar Lars Kleberg, who has also written comments and a detailed postscript.
Year	2026
Publisher	Bokförlaget Faethon
Pages	263
Cover	Hardcover
ISBN	978-91-89943-93-3

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