Book two, part three
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Between 1892, when "The Fragment", the first novella in this book, was published, and "The Peasant" (1897) and "On the Carts" (1897), A. P. Chekhov made a series of other artistically successful observations of the society in which he lived.
Venedikt Yerofeyev's postmodern prose poem is today considered a classic of new Russian literature. It is compared to Gogol and Kharms for its poetics of absurdity, satire, and metaphysical depth.
Man by Maxim Gorky, translated by Ozren Subotić (Vukovar, 1905), is a philosophical and literary work that glorifies the dignity of man, his creative power, freedom of spirit, and the fight against social injustice.
This book collects the narrative work of A. P. Chekhov, which was written during his most mature years. In addition, his travelogues "From Siberia" and "Sakhalin Island" have also been published.
Since the play Three Sisters was written in the second half of the 19th century, it rightly carries with it certain motifs and an atmosphere that runs through most literary works of that period.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall