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Pokhozhdeniya idealista (The Adventures of an Idealist)
The Adventures of an Idealist
also: Похождения идеалиста, The Adventures of an Idealist
A book by the poet Liodor Palmin, its captioning text written to accompany a set of comic drawings by the illustrator Bush (after Wilhelm Busch); Chekhov, at Palmin's request, asks Suvorin for a bibliographical notice of it in Novoye Vremya.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 6 November 1886. Moscow. §5 his book "The Adventures of an Idealist" (text to accompany Bush's drawings)
The book was a caption-text written by Palmin to accompany a set of comic drawings by the illustrator Bush -- a common collaborative format in the humor-magazine milieu Chekhov and Palmin both worked in, where a cartoonist's images were paired with a writer's captions or verse rather than the text standing alone.