俄國文學大師契訶夫於辭世後，為世人留下了約一萬多封的書信遺產，這些珍貴的書信，至今多數仍未全文公諸於世，而部份遺失的書信也大多難以尋回。此外，由於當代基於道德風俗的考量或怕影響作家的個人評價，在目前已出版的契訶夫書信中，仍有許多刪節之處尚未出版。本文將透過這些所謂「有礙風化」的書信缺漏之處，以另一個視角探究契訶夫的個人特質及其人生態度，並以其小說《帶著小狗的女人》為例，試圖尋求作品中與這些缺漏文字相關連結，藉此提供另一種了解契訶夫與其創作之重要途徑。 Anton P. Chekhov left after him a broad epistolary heritage counting over ten thousand letters. This heritage has not been yet fully published, and by all we know may forever remain so, mainly due to the letters' not having survived these years. Among the published letters of Chehkov, however, there still remain some abstracts, which never have been printed, mainly due to their "obsceneness". This article attempts to prove that those unprinted abstracts, however "obscene" they are, contain some pieces of information most precious for our understanding of Chekhov's conduct and his attitude towards certain aspects of life reflected in his realistic novels.
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淡江人文社會學刊=Tamkang Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences43，頁127-148
