A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

Saunders has taught the nineteenth-century Russian short story at Syracuse for twenty years, and this book is that class: seven stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol printed in full, each followed by an essay taking it apart.

He reads Chekhov's In the Cart page by page, stopping to ask what the reader expects next and why, which is the best demonstration of how narrative tension is actually built that exists in print. Underneath is an argument about fiction as a moral instrument — not because it preaches, but because it forces attention onto another person.

By the Booker-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo. The best book on reading and writing fiction in years.

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