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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays And Documentary Materials. 2nd edition. Edited by John B. Dunlop, Richard Haugh, and Alexis Klimoff. New York: Collier Books, a division of Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan, 1975 [1973]. 666pp. $5.95, paper.

book is the one entitled "Chekhov and Women," in which Laffitte accurately observes Chekhov's considerable misogynistic tendencies and recounts major details about the women who were significant in his life. Her style—captured well in this quite competent translation—is conversational and emotional, sometimes excessively so, as when she rhapsodizes that Chekhov "never sought to teach, moralize, or preach. What he set out to do was to suggest and to demonstrate by his own example, what a man could become by sheer determination, with no outside help from anyone, even God." Despite her occasional lapses into inspirational prose, this undeniable love for her subject ultimately makes Sophie Laffitte's book a compelling introduction to the life and work of an equally compelling man.