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Powerful portrait of Russian enigma; ANTON CHEKHOV A Life by Donald Rayfield HarperCollins. pounds 25.(Features)

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From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: 19970804
Author:McKEOWN, CIARAN

IT HELPED, but it cannot simply have been an abiding love of Anton Chekhov's writing which caused me to sit up through the night reading the latest biography of the seminal Russian genius.

In fact, when I say that apart from such interruptions as having to go to work, I could not put down Donald Rayfield's new 600-page life of Chekhov, you will gather that this is a pretty absorbing read.

It was not until I had finished that I really appreciated how well it had been written. An awesome amount of research material had been distilled into a picture so compelling that I felt ...

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