The Eternal Husband
A St Petersburg bachelor in poor health and worse spirits keeps catching sight of a man in a crape hatband about the city, and finally admits to himself who it is: the husband of a woman he spent a summer with in the provinces nine years ago. The widower turns up at his door at two in the morning, drunk and affectionate, with a small daughter in tow and no account of what he has come for. Written in Dresden between two of the big novels, it makes a whole book out of two men who cannot leave off calling on each other.
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