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Just yesterday I was sent a link by a good friend to the English translation of a short story called Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov.

I had never read anything by Chekhov before, but I was familiar with a number of Russian authors - Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy - all of whom I enjoyed greatly.

Chekhov’s style reminds me somewhat of a more-psychological Balzac, certainly somewhat in the realist vein, or of Zola. Very cutting, gritty and in my opinion worthwhile.

Tags: Art, Chekhov, Russian Literature, Ward No 6

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