HOW CHEKHOV REWROTE TOLSTOY (the creative experience of Leo Tolstoy in the works of Anton Chekhov)
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A. P. Chekhov, , War and Peace, v,Abstract
In this article, the author attempts to show by comparing two episodes from Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" and Chekhov's short story "Boys" how Chekhov, studying Tolstoy's manner, writes a "second layer" of Tolstoy's episode, going into another narrative.
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