The voice will be instantly recognizable as Saundersesque to anyone familiar with his fiction: jocular and often stand-up-comic funny, with a focus on providing joyful surprises with every turn of phrase. Saunders uses a method of close reading intended for serious writers honing their own skills, or for lay readers interested in learning how the literary sausage is made. Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Gogol are included in the book, then treated to detailed discussion. ![]() In “ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life,” Saunders shares his method for literary analysis, fine-tuned over 20 years of teaching Russian short fiction in a Syracuse University seminar. George Saunders takes a much more welcoming approach to the study of the great Russian writers.
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