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By the Way
"By the Way"
also: По пути, Po puti, On the Way
V. G. Korolenko short story, referenced here as the tale Chekhov is eager to read; he asks Pleshcheev to arrange for him to receive Severny Vestnik so he can obtain a copy.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5 February 1888. Moscow. §8 "By the Way"
A Korolenko story Chekhov is eager to read, prompting his request that Pleshcheev help him get a subscription to "Severny Vestnik."
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 February 1888. Moscow. §6 "On the Way"
Korolenko's short story (По пути), which had been cut by the censor; Chekhov calls it artistic but "noticeably threadbare" as a result.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 February 1888. Moscow. §7 "On the Way,"
Chekhov clarifies his complaint is with the story itself, not with the censorship, and wonders why Korolenko submitted it to a censored journal and billed it as a "Christmas story" -- a genre label that invited exactly the kind of interference the story suffered.