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What’s Not Mentioned is a Big Part of the Story

The 99% off-stage in “A Month in the Country”

Blue Pencils: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

It’s sometimes hard to remember all the things in A Month in the Country that Turgenev was not allowed to say. In mid-nineteenth century Russia, the threat of censorship was a constant presence. If writers crossed the line, they could be…