The Shooting Party

* There follows a strikingly pretentious interpretation of the author’s emotional resilience. The sight of human misery, blood, autopsies apparently left him completely unmoved. The whole of this passage is tinged with boastful naïveté, insincerity. It is startlingly crude and I have deleted it. As far as characterization of Kamyshev is concerned, it’s of no importance. A. C.