7/6/2023 0 Comments Rock paper scissors a novel![]() It’s not that he was in perfect health (he wasn’t, not at all), but that, during our brief acquaintance, I had come to like the old man. In the case of poor Alexander Ivanovich, however, I experienced no thrill. This affords us a chance to demonstrate our powers of observation, the breadth of our knowledge. I’ll let you in on a secret: we experience a thrill, almost a pleasure, upon encountering a serious, rare illness, especially if we’re the first to diagnose it, if it’s curable, or if it’s not directly related to our speciality. It’s not his fault, is it, that his readers will be put in mind of Chekhov, but as we meet the sad, amusing down-on-their-luck contemporary characters, whose physical and emotional ailments and histories are diagnosed with a light touch, who else are we supposed to think of? This first book in English, featuring 12 stories from those volumes, is going to make a splash. He has published six collections of stories since then. ![]() Maxim Osipov published his first short story when he was 45. More than a hundred years after Chekhov’s death, in 2009, Dr. ANTON CHEKHOV was dead at 44, in 1904, and collections of his short stories didn’t begin appearing in English until 1915. ![]() Maxim Osipov, “After Eternity: The Notes of a Literary Director”ĭR. ![]() ![]() Can anyone of sound mind insist that life lacks a plot? ![]()
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