concept
Living Figures
"Living Figures"
also: Живые цифры
A work Chekhov judged "nonsense, hard to read and hard to make sense of," which he felt the critic Aristarkhov had struggled with in Russkiye Vedomosti without the courage to admit as much.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §16 Living Figures
A contemporary work Chekhov dismisses as "nonsense, hard to read and hard to make sense of," citing it as a case where Aristarkhov's criticism concealed his own bafflement.