'THE PARASOL has an authentic Chekhovian feel - the bourgeois boredom and guilt, the aching aimless loneliness - without the musty archaism we get in some translations. It's crisp and sharply witty and has the emotional directness of the real thing .... It's richly intricate, carefully crafted fusion of sociology and psychology and the private pains of a pre-revolutionary world .... It's like discovering an old master in the attic.'

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