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Chekhov remains the most misunderstood -- as well as the most beloved of the 19th-century Russian geniuses. In Russia, no less than in our country, possibly even more than in our country, Chekhov attracts a kind of sickening piety. You utter the name "Chekhov" and people arrange their features as if a baby deer had come into the room.
-- Janet Malcolm
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