If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. 	If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say:	'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!
Anton Chekhov, The Exclamation Mark
criticism, humor, writing