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On tour with Anton Chekhov; Books.(Review)
From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030217
Author:Binyon, Tj
Byline: TJ BINYON
READING CHEKHOV. A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm (Granta Books, u13.99)
THIS delightfully produced and charmingly written little book is the story of a literary pilgrimage. As Janet Malcolm travels through Russia in search of Chekhov, examining his letters in the Pushkin Museum; imagining herself as Anna Karenina in a sleeping compartment on the St Petersburg-Moscow express; glimpsing, behind a clump of trees, the Moscow clinic at which, in March 1897, after a severe haemorrhage at dinner, Chekhov was diagnosed as having advanced tuberculosis; ...
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