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• To-Read (3)
  • The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
    by Chekhov, Anton
  • The Yellow Wallpaper
    by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
  • The Heart of Mid-Lothian
    by Scott, Sir Walter

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• The Artist of the Beautiful finished
• The Black Monk finished

  The difference between genius and madness Where do we draw the line between genius and madness? This is the subject of Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk - the story of a young man called Andrei Kovrin who suffers from an undisclosed mental illness which causes him to believe he is being visited by a monk dressed in black.
  
  This is a fascinating, unusual story which I found easy to read but difficult to fully understand. Chekhov's poetic writing creates an eerie, disturbing atmosphere appropriate to Kovrin's descent into mental illness. I posted this on 06 March 2010
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The Black Monk - The difference between genius and madness

Where do we draw the line between genius and madness? This is the subject of Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk - the story of a young man called Andrei Kovrin who suffers from an undisclosed mental illness which causes him to believe he is being visited by a monk dressed in black.

This is a fascinating, unusual story which I found easy to read but difficult to fully understand. Chekhov's poetic writing creates an eerie, disturbing atmosphere appropriate to Kovrin's descent into mental illness.

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