It seems like Nadja’s friend, who is also the narrator of the story, is just playing a game with her, as he pronounces these three words. The girl is not sure, whether it is the wind that says these words or her friend, so she keeps on asking him to slide down the hill again, despite her terrible fear. As they slide down the mountain, the young man whisper s “I love you, Nadja”. A short story about falling in love at the wrong time in our lives, presenting the reader a difficult question: what is more real between someone’s secret life and the open one, the one someone lives in the broad daylight, that is for everyone to see? 2- A joke ( Шуточка)Ī young lady and her male friend go coasting down a small ice hill. The end of summer leads both of them to return to their families and duties, but this is not the end ing point of their relationship. Here, they live their secret affair while escaping for a while their official lives as married people. This is the story of two people meeting in Jalta, Crimea. Statue of Anton Chekhov in Badenweiler 1- The Lady with the dog ( Дама с собачкой)
Despite the fact that he shows us his characters in their moments of failure, he never judges their behaviors and we can rarely spot his personal intromission while reading. By describing them, Chekhov reveals us to something about human nature, he tells us something about our own selves. What happens most times though, while reading his stories, is that we recognize ourselves in his characters. With his subtle irony, Anton Chekhov shows individuals who may look ridiculous to us, in their inability to take action in life. Why should you read Anton Chekhov?Ĭhekhov presents to the reader a wide range of characters, whose lives are often mediocre, who are human simply depicted with all their flaws and weaknesses. Writing this article has been the perfect occasion for me to improve my knowledge of Chekhov and his work. Since then, I never encountered this author again in my academic path. A week before that exam, I ended up translating fifty pages of literature from Russian into Italian, so I did not have the time to focus on the sense, nor on the beauty of what I was reading. Disclaimer: I’m a helpless procrastinator. It was during my second year of university when I had to translate some of his short stories for my exam. My first time reading Chekhov was two years ago. If you are new to the works of this author, in this article you will find five suggestions for short (and, as you can read in the title, not that short) stories written by him.
This year Russia celebrated the 160th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov, a writer, and playwright whose works are still relatable today, after all these years.
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