Reading authors who write outside of their own culture is a major challenge for any reader. If the setup is also in a different and obviously unfamiliar era, then the problem is at least complicated. This kind of experience will at least challenge the things we take for granted, the assumptions we often don't know. When the experience also presents an unfamiliar and unexpected form, the challenge can even be daunting. Therefore, this has happened during the recent revisit of Anton Chekhov's short story.
Contemporary recommendations suggest that short stories are both simple and powerful. We are often told that it should be lit in the first sentence and then burnt brighter before getting off like a fireworks. However, this form of concept leaves the experience repeatedly provided by Chekhov's short stories. How do these examples of open lines are randomly selected from the collection?
"On a beautiful night, US government official Ivan Tcherviakoff is sitting in the second row of the orchestra and watching his opera glasses at Les Cloches in Corneville." [Death of the official]
"Two friends meet at the train station; one is fat and the other is thin." [Lean and fat]
"In front of the pre-trial judge, this is a very thin little peanut stick." [The Malefactor]
Obviously, Chekhov's short story did not burst into a flame. They often greet us with their apologies. They also don't burn brighter and brighter, and none of them finish like fireworks. Writers like Anton Chekhov do not need such skills, because for them, just fair life is interesting. The character is not a freak, an addict, a murderer, a spy, or usually a paranoid. They are the people we introduced, and after the first meeting, we spent a little time. In fact, if such presumptions are even possible, they may be everything in the list above, but when we meet them, like real people, protect their identity and motivation, and only through occasional advice To hint at them.
In these stories, Chekhov usually does not indulge in the plot, let alone allow things that are as unnecessary as the solution. But he does observe and usually just hints at recording human weaknesses, tendencies and weaknesses. Just like capturing a momentary realist painting, these works invite readers to insert the past and the future.
Therefore, for modern non-Russian readers, these stories present a double challenge. In foreign countries, there is an unfamiliar culture. But even more difficult is that we often rely on our own imagination to provide details.
But rest assured, the experience of reading these short stories is both precious and rewarding. Almost all human interactions claim violations, and Chekhov's roles are often asked to give each other, which is a requirement of their frequent resentment. These pages are full of humor, irony, observation and emotion, but many claim or still have no explanation, or frustrate the reader, or even write. These snapshots of scenes from rural and small towns in the 19th century Russia - Tsarist Russia present their own rhythms and their own time. Therefore, the reader can get an inspiring journey, but for contemporary readers, this is not an easy journey. The really useful insight is that these difficulties are not easy in their own time. Today, the theme proposed by Chekhov is still as mysterious and even difficult as ever.
Orignal From: Choose the story of Anton Chekhov
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