Sabrana djela A. P. Čehova #8: Čovjek u futroli i druge novele i putopisi

From the story "At an Acquaintance's", written in 1898, to the last story "The Bride" (1903), the reader can follow not only the development of impeccable compositional skill in these works, but also a series of problems that interested the author in recent years, and which he tried to resolve in his work. This book contains such stories as "The Man in a Case", one of Chekhov's most famous stories, "Gooseberry", "Jonic", and "The Lady with the Dog".

All these stories are masterfully conceived in scenes in which the artist's attention is strained - in inner life moments and inner turning points - they show how great the author was in understanding everyday life, in the course of his reflections on life, and how much he was adorned with a deep thought about the general universality, about the lasting human meaning (Ahijerey).

But this period of Chekhov's work also means a certain attitude towards the future, a belief in the victory of good and justice (the last story, The Bride). It is not necessary to mention how many individual faces (The Man in a Case!) from these Chekhov's short stories became synonymous with certain types of people in later Soviet society, or even types of people we meet in everyday life (Dušica, Jonič). It is precisely in this "ordinariness", this everyday life, in its faithful depiction, that the greatness of A. P. Chekhov's pen consists.

Two published travelogues represent a special chapter in Chekhov's life. Less known to the reading public, because they have been inaccessible in our country until today, these two works serve as a supplement to the testimonies of the humanity of this great writer, who did not remain only a closed, cabinet writer, but, as is the case with these two works, also studied living material in the field. He was the first to raise his voice in the name of the truth about the convicts on Sakhalin Island.