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Chekhovian loss and being "post-fall"
The end of fantasy Chekhovian loss and being "post-fall" Nix Mar 26, 2026 65 8 19 Share John Christian Schetky I’ve always loved novels that follow a particular narrative arc: a young man has fantasies of finding glory or honor in some grand gesture, and abandons a comfortable or ordinary life to seek it out. When he finally journeys toward it, he realizes that the fantasy he dreamed of was a sham. A mirage. It was a bloody journey full of false gods. When he returns he is changed. Broken fundamentally in some ways, healed in others. He has come to some semblance of self-knowledge. The route i
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