{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e7f","title":"An Evening Guest","author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"an-evening-guest","words":2064,"publish_year":1904,"image":"knocker.jpg","image_alt":"A brass, ring, door knocker. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"blurb":"I do not know what will happen to me tomorrow.⁠ ⁠… Only the shallow, self-satisfied, dull pharisees, or the chosen clairvoyants, with extraordinarily sensitized spirits, know it⁠—or deceive themselves and others into a belief that they know it.","description":"An anxious man is sent into an existential panic by an unassuming knock on his door.","rating":4,"original_language":"Russian","translators":["Leo Pasvolsky "],"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"}]}