Lev Shestov's 'Anton Tchekhov and Other Essays' explores the connection between philosophy and life through the lens of great Russian writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Tchekhov. Shestov argues that these writers approached the fundamental problem of all philosophy—whether life is worth living—with fearlessness and devotion. Despite their failure to find a definitive answer, they accepted and loved all human potentialities and strived to find a place for them in a pattern in which none should be distorted.