Boris Pasternak: unsafe conduct -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: the Gulag circle -- Anton Chekhov: a doctor -- Leo Tolstoy: the despot -- Ivan Goncharov: the dream of a censor -- Fyodor Dostoevsky: the early Dostoevsky -- Alexander Pushkin: founding father -- August Strindberg: a bolting horse -- Franz Kafka: estranged -- Jean Genet: a modern nihilist -- Emile Zola: Zola's life -- George Sand: George Sand -- Gustave Flaubert: the quotidian -- Stendhal: an early outsider -- Eça de Queiroz: a Portuguese diplomat -- Benito Perez Galdos: a Spanish Balzac -- Machado de Assis: a Brazilian -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: the myth makers -- Jorge Luis Borges: medallions.
