{"_id":"65ec5946c8699e9cf6582338","title":"How I Became an Actor","author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"how-i-became-an-actor","publish_year":1920,"publish_source":"Sasha","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sashabyalexander00kuprrich/page/134/mode/2up","words":10927,"original_language":"Russian","translators":["Douglas Ashby"],"image":"coins.jpg","image_alt":"A pair of hands carefully holding a dozen coins. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"blurb":"On my way I thought to myself: Why didn’t he ask for my stage name? Probably he forgot. Perhaps he guessed that I had none. And in case of an emergency I then and there invented a name⁠.","description":"After having his pocketbook stolen while far from his home and family, a man resorts to joining a theatre trouupe in desparation for money.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}