"Sleepy", by Anton Chekhov (1888)

I wonder if Robert Coover was in some way paying homage to this story in his weird, and (I think) delightful PoMo tale we read last month: The Babysitter. There are echoes of Dr Chekhov in Coover's fragmented half-dream-half-real presentation, or maybe not.

Whatever Coover was trying to do with that story (and we were in somewhat deep disagreement in our discussion last month about exactly what he was trying to achieve), Chekhov, as in most cases, got there first. Wherever that "there" is.

You might not want to listen to this late at night though. It's a very creepy story.






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