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The author William Boyd claims that with Anton Chekhov, "For the first time in literature the fluidity and randomness of life was made the form of the fiction. Before Chekhov, the event-plot drove all fictions." Is that true at all?

by /u/LorenzoApophis in /r/AskHistorians

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