In the canon
The Kiss
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1887
- Originally in
- Originally in Russian
- Pages
- Pages 12
A shy officer is kissed in a dark room by a woman who mistook him for someone else, and the accident swells to fill his whole inner life until the retelling shows him how small it was.
And the whole world, the whole of life, seemed to Ryabovitch an unintelligible, aimless jest.
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