Adding months to Chekov's life...
The days of Anton Chekhov were numbered...
José Sasportes, an example of a cultural and literary figure who was also once a Minister for Culture (although not in the same league of the illustrious French example, André Malraux), has just published a curious book - "Os Dias Contados" - arising from a good "concept" (to use L.A. scriptwriting lingo): what if a famous historical personality was given six extra-months of life? The tour de force, which immediately turns Mr Sasportes into a serious scholar of Chekhov, does work. Any non-lusophone reader interested or fascinated by the greatest playwriter of Russian literature (with Ostrovsky) will no doubt await with impatience a well-deserved translation..
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