Sabrana djela A. P. Čehova #4: Dan izvan grada
The fourth volume of Chekhov's works contains novellas and humoresques, which were mostly written in 1886. Still writing for a fee in daily newspapers, Chekhov often had to subordinate his art to comprehensibility and cheap humor due to the taste of the r
In the series of short stories and humoresques published in this book, the reader finds a synthesis of entertaining humor with sublime humoresques in both formal and artistic terms, and such humoresques can still serve as a model that many modern humorists can emulate.
Chekhov did not remain narrow-minded in his subject matter: here too, he reached for various aspects of human life and his characters, ridiculing them and depicting their special way of living in the unequal appearance of the society of his time, or creating an atmosphere of the type that Russian criticism, speaking of Gogol, called "laughter through tears".
In addition to already well-known works, such as A Novel with a Double Bass, The Pharmacist, The Long Tongue, The Orator, etc. (and which works, despite the apparent dose of humor, contain a large part of the philosophy of life or a sharp denunciation of human shortcomings), in this book we will also find a series of novelistic works that testify to Chekhov's genius in formal terms, as well as in his views on life.
If we just take his humorous novel Sretnik, a whole small philosophy of life opens up before us. In the form of a humorous novel, it is presented how little is needed to be happy or unhappy. The First Lover, The Long Tongue, Psssst satirize human flaws, while the novella Vanja is a poignant confession of a village orphan, thrown into the big city, at the mercy of a cruel landlord. In addition to his already well-known works, in this book the reader will find a series of humorous novels without tendency (such as, for example, Ah, teeth!).
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