Henry, particularly the first two stories in the collection: “A Work of Art” and “Vengeance.” As the introduction explains: In the introduction, Chekhov is compared to American short story writer O. The nine stories are all quite short – the book is only 67 pages online – and don’t take much time to get through.
I decided on Nine Humorous Tales, a book I could get for free on my nook via Google Books. Turns out he was also considered a master of the short story, so when he came up on The Classics Circuit I decided to try a collection of those. And, second, the poetics of contrariety is a partial attempt to develop a more adequate, phenomenological literary approach to certain pivotal aspects of the Chekhov oeuvre.Before reading Nine Humorous Tales I mostly knew Russian writer Anton Chekov from his plays like The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard. Since Chekhov writes in the phenomenological tradition grounded on the premise that practical living precedes theoretical thinking, interpreting him along rationalist lines is questionable. First, the oxymoron of the brainless virtuoso is rooted in the fact that a great part of Chekhov criticism has been in the wake of Cartesian rationalism, which postulates that theoretical thinking precedes practical living. Behind these two literary tasks loom two philosophical issues. The second is to examine Chekhovʼs poetics of contrariety, and illustrate it with an analysis of the short story ‘Dreams’ (‘Mechty’). The first literary aim is to dispel the enduring paradigm in Chekhov studies presenting this writer as a brainless virtuoso, who writes artistically brilliant works that lack idea(l)s.
This study entwines two literary and two philosophical goals. Existential philosophy addressed questions that either had been overlooked by traditional philosophy for a long period of time (e g the individual's experience of anxiety in the face of death, the failure of rational thinking and science to inquire essential aspects of human life) or had resurfaced again following the disappointment caused by the destructions and absurdity of the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century (e g questions pertaining to the meaningfulness/meaninglessness of the human endeavour and of human life in general) Russian realist novelists Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy are often invoked among the earliest existentialist thinkers, along with philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche Drawing on the works of philosophers Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, this paper will examine how the existentialist preoccupation with death anxiety, ethics, and authenticity is represented in two short stories by Anton Chekhov, one of Dostoyevsky's and Tolstoy's younger contemporary writers
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