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Mr. Gulevich (the author)
Gulevich
The fictitious feuilletonist accused of talking Ivanov to death with his own stories on a boat; Chekhov's self-mocking jab at long-winded newspaper writers, tagged throughout as "(the author)."
Reading notes
- A Little Something §6 Mr. Gulevich (the author)
The invented feuilletonist accused of causing Ivanov's death by boring him overboard with his own stories -- Chekhov's joke at the expense of long-winded newspaper writers, himself included in the parenthetical "(the author)."