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The Sokolinets
"The Sokolinets"
also: Соколинец, The Vagabond
V. G. Korolenko's story from his Siberian exile cycle (companion to "Makar's Dream"), praised here by Chekhov as the most outstanding recent work he knows -- constructed, he says, like a piece of music by an artist's sure instinct, with the half-joking observation that no woman appears anywhere in it.
Reading notes
- To V. G. Korolenko, 9 January 1888. Moscow. §12 “The Sokolinets”
Korolenko's story from his Siberian exile cycle (a companion piece to "Makar's Dream"), praised here by Chekhov in strikingly musical terms -- built, he says, by an artist's sure instinct -- with the closing half-joking observation that no woman appears anywhere in the book.