Point of view. Angle of view. Simple, pulsating, naked, transparent syntax. Natalia Ginzburg had a unique way of drawing family structures, revealing silenced passions, deciphering souls, writing people in two quick brushstrokes. Spreading out a life in a colorful fan. This is how she spread out her life, her family, and this is how she spreads out the short life of Anton Chekhov. The youth of a writer, his early years in Moscow, the worry about making a living, his first humorous writings, his work as a village doctor, his success as a playwright, his poor health, his languishing life, the characters around him, his early death. But above all, Chekhov's soul is trapped between the beautiful pages before you. The great Italian writer manages to create a piece of a writer and a portrait of a man who was and will always be one of the best literary portraitists of the human soul. "Anton Chekhov" by Natalia Ginzburg is a biographical portrait that reads like a novella: delicious, sad, tragic, melancholic, but full of grace, human closeness to the character and confidence in the writer's hand, which gives the text light and freshness.