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Is the author pulling our leg? With Chekhov we can never be entirely sure.
The narrative of The Shooting Party is elaborately and ironically framed. An unknown writer (with a mysterious badge in his hat) deposits a manuscript with a publisher. The unsolicited package is, the stranger says, the record of a ‘true event’. Ivan Petrovich Kamyshev’s physiognomy would seem to confirm his bona fides – or does it? As the Editor notes:
His entire face simply radiated ingenuousness, an expansive, simple character, truth. If it isn’t a lie that the face is the mirror of the soul, I could have sworn from the very first day of my meeting with the gentleman with the badge that he was incapable of lying. I might even have laid a bet on it. Whether I would have lost or won, the reader will discover later [p. 4].
‘There’s no art’, as Chekhov’s beloved Shakespeare would say, &
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