4 for~gn publishers for com ~cial reasons, are, on the other hand, much more tenu ous. Among the classical Rus sian authors, the example of Anton Chekhov is far more germane. Like Chekhov, Solzhenitsyn brings to the art of literature methods of precise observation derived from the exact sciences (physics and mathematics in his case, medicine and biology in Chekhov's); like him he ques tions all the basic assumptions, all the id~es recues of his age. The two w...
