Lost in Translation: The work was originally written in Russian, but since the author, on principle, refused to publish it in his native language, he had to translate his work himself. Because of this, many idioms and phraseological units, when literally translated, either lost their meaning or began to mean something completely different than in the original version.
What Could Have Been: A total of four separate stories were planned, which would follow the main three acts, but due to haste, only one was completed, which became the zero act of the work (essentially, an extended prologue).
