Few writers are as universally admired as Chekhov. As Booker winner George Saunders puts it, “Chekhov – shall I be blunt? – is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.” Novelists from Ann Patchett to Zadie Smith cite him as an…
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side | Anton Chekhov
