Small Fry and Other Stories

Anton Chekhov, Stephen Pimenoff

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Alma Edizioni
01 September 2022

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation

Universally

acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov began his

literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life

when he was still a young medical student. Later rejected by the writer in

the same self-effacing way in which he repudiated some of his most celebrated

works, the stories in this collection not only testify to the early promise

of his genius, but deserve to be appreciated for their lapidary vividness and

their intrinsic stylistic quality.

Mostly dealing with the lives of downtrodden “little” men and low-ranking

civil servants as they navigate the corruption and malpractice of Russian

officialdom, this volume – here presented in Stephen Pimenoff’s lively new

translation – bristles with wit and humour, and is tinged by that understated

note of melancholy and lyricism that is a trademark of Chekhov’s writing.

By: Anton Chekhov
Translated by: Stephen Pimenoff
Imprint: Alma Edizioni
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9781847498847
ISBN 10: 1847498841
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.