The Humorist Stories of Anthony Chekhonte

"The Humorist Stories of Anthony Chekhonte" by Anton Chekhov is an honest, ironic and incredibly live collection of small prose, with which the way of the great writer in Russian literature began. signing his famous student pseudonym, the young Chekhov created miniatures for the humorist magazines, which instantly spread to quotes. This is a brilliant gallery of human errors, stupidities and stupid situations, written easily, sharply and with an unimaginable sense of humor. Each story of the collection is a virtuous joke, pressed to several pages where there is no one extra word. Chekhov turns into the satire the absurdity of the reading in the legendary **“The Death of the Officer”** and **“Tolst and Thin”**, laughs the cameleonism and hypocrisy of the authority in the face of the police supervisor Ochumelov from **“The Cameleon”**, with purely medical cynicism describes the life cases in **“Cirurgy”** and causes to hunt over the unfortunate persecutors in **“The Thief Family”**. In front of the reader, a furious parade of the characters of the nineteenth century is developing: small clerks, provincial actors, stupid locators, smart merchants, and wholesale doctors, in which our contemporaries will be easily recognized. Behind the outer light-think, comedy potions, and the funny confusion of stories, the subtle observation of the future master of the drama is always seen here. This is a surprisingly easy, therapeutic reading, capable of raising mood in any situation and making you smile about how little human nature has changed in a half-century. **About what the book in three words:** Smile, Absurd, Satira. **Who to read:** To everyone who wants to raise the mood, lovers of delicate humor, short dynamic stories and ideal literary anecdotes from the recognized master of laconicity.