"Chekhov’s strange, coded works almost force us to sound them for hidden meanings... we don’t want to miss the clues that Chekhov has scattered about his garden and covered with last year’s leaves. These leaves are fixtures of Chekhov’s world ...and exemplify Chekhov’s way of endowing some small quiet natural phenomenon with #metaphorical meaning... Reading #Chekhov: A Critical Journey by #JanetMalcolm #nonfiction #bookstodon #books #RussianLiterature #essay #literature https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107183.Reading_Chekhov