Next> | <Prev | End  Contributed by MariLi Pooler, Date: Mon, 06
Apr 1998. We have divided the text into three parts, one for
each of the authors. The ellipses are actually part of the text
in the Huebsch publication. Many or all of these ellipses
indicate pauses, and do not necessarily reflect missing words
from an original.]  Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov  Maxim Gorky,
Alexander Kuprin, and I.A. Bunin  Translated by S. S.
Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf  B. W. Huebsch: New York: 1921
"To Chekhov's Memory"  Alexander Kuprin  He lived among us ...
But when evening comes and the bustle in the half dark dormitory
ceases, O what an unbearable sadness, what despair possesses
one's soul. One bites one's pillow, suppressing one's sobs, one
whispers dear names and cries, cries with tears that burn, and
knows that this sorrow is unquenchable. It is then that one
realizes for the first time all the shattering horror of two
things: the irrevocability of the past and the feeling of
loneliness. It seems as if one woul