Sabrana djela A. P. Čehova #6: Stepa i druge novele

From Steppe (1888), one of his longest stories, full of landscapes, to Pavilion No. 6 from 1892, he addressed a number of current problems of his time: he decisively dealt with Turgenev's "superfluous people" (Duel, 1891), and especially with Tolstoy's ideology of non-resistance to evil (in the aforementioned story Pavilion No. 6). In addition to confronting previous attitudes, his stories, despite their apparent external disinterest, carry within them a series of deep and peculiar problems, which are often not only personal problems, but also general social ones (Napadaj gnošanja, 1888, Žena, 1892, and especially Susjedi, 1892.)

The analysis of subtle human weaknesses and weaknesses, when a person does something, but does not want to do it himself, is best done in the story Susjedi (1892), again seemingly with the treatment of a social problem, but in fact with a greedy delving into the essence of man's "to be or not to be".

In addition, as we have mentioned, this book contains his famous stories: Steppe, already known to Yugoslav readers, A Boring History (1889), which, despite its title, is one of Chekhov's most successful narrative creations. However, the crowning glory of this work is Pavilion No. 6, about which story Lenin said that, after reading it, he felt the downfall of Andrei Yefimitch, imprisoned in a madhouse, and that all of Russia seemed to him like Pavilion No. 6. And that is why few readers will leave this book without reading Pavilion No. 6 to the end.