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Satire and the Nymph
also: Сатира и нимфа
A play or story by Nikolai Leikin that Chekhov gently teases him about, noting an "author's over-enthusiasm" in piling up so many situations and characters that the plot risks becoming tangled by the end.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 25 February 1887. Moskva*. §12 Satire and the Nymph
A work by Leikin himself; Chekhov's critique -- too many situations and characters risking a tangled ending -- is good-humored editorial feedback from a junior writer to his editor.
- To N. A. Lei Kin, 5 October 1888. Moscow. §5 "The Satyr and the Nymph"
Leikin's novel "Сатир и нимфа" (masculine "Сатир," i.e. satyr, not the feminine "Сатира"/satire); the same work Chekhov discusses under the same entity in an earlier letter, there declined as "Сатире и нимфе." Rendered here as "The Satyr and the Nymph" to preserve the correct sense of the title.