Status Updates From Anton Çehov Öyküler

What the fuck, erster Gedanke, zweiter Gedanke war souverän bleiben, eiskalt bleiben, keine Blöße geben

Finished stories dated 1894.

The Black Monk is a very good story. Andrew is a scholar with bright future ahead of him, but he is pursued by a Black Monk who is the embodiment of his mental illness and a harbinger of his approaching death.

The Two Volodyas is confusing, but the translation by P&V is clearer and the fullness of the story comes out.

Completed Volume Two.

The tale of An Anonymous Man is very good. The translator does a great job. The story tales starts out telling of a young boy who is put into service and who eventually takes on a baby girl after her mother, whom he runs away with to western Europe, dies. It is a sad story written with depth and feeling.