Chekhov's novels

I have been reading Chekhov's short stories translated by Mr. Rulong these two days. After reading the first page, I fell in love with the words of this handsome and elegant Russian handsome boy.

The first article is an uneven mirror.

This novel is narrated in the first person. My wife and I walked into my ancestral home handed down from the last century. There are many portraits of ancestors hanging in the old and moldy living room, one of which is my great-grandmother, next to a mirror with a black copper frame hanging in the corner. I told my wife that my great-grandmother looked at this mirror day and night before her death, and even asked the mirror to follow her into the coffin before her death, because the mirror was too big to do; It is said that there is a devil in the mirror that ruined my great-grandmother's life.

I brushed the dust off the mirror and found that the mirror was uneven and my face was deformed, which was very funny. The wife also looked in the mirror, and she immediately fainted, and she can't live without the mirror from now on. By chance, I finally found that my wife's ordinary face was reflected in the mirror as a perfect face-beauty turns ugly, ugliness turns beautiful, and negativity is positive!

How can I make the moral of this novel clear? I have to say my humble opinion. We are easy to indulge in false and one-sided praise from others and lose the ability to know ourselves objectively; Living in dreams and fantasies makes people forget their ordinary, humble and weak, and indulge in false and blind happiness. Isn't the beauty camera now a "bumpy mirror"? Let's forget our dissatisfaction with ourselves and make peace with ourselves.

The author is good at creating an atmosphere of terror. Let's see how he described the environment in simple language: "For a whole century, there was no light in the room. When we light candles and light up the walls, millions of mice will flee everywhere. " "The wind whistling outside, whining. There seems to be someone crying in the chimney of the fireplace, crying desperately. Big raindrops beat on the dark windows, and the beating was depressing. " "The wind screamed more and more bitterly, the big mouse began to run, and the little mouse rustled in the paper pile. When a shutter falls from the window, my hair will stand up straight and tremble. The moon appeared outside the window ... "

After reading the first article, I resolutely put the Complete Works of Chekhov (translated by Rulong, ten volumes * * *) by People's Literature Publishing House in JD's shopping cart. COM- Liu, I'm waiting for the book coupon to be reduced by 100!

The mysterious figure tells a story through the dialogue between a handsome little woman and a young special official who writes amateur.

The reversal of the ending is unexpected and reasonable. Chekhov's novels are always so good at inversion. Maybe when you look at them, we have guessed that the back of the work will be reversed, but you will never guess what it will become.

This handsome little woman reminds me of a joke by China, "The master eats and sleeps in the west". The little woman hates the vulgarity and ugliness of the rich man she married, and claims to be eager for freedom, but she also craves the rich life that the rich man can bring her. Greed and hypocrisy.

These early works of the author are telling jokes with extremely bright skills and keen observation, and each short story is an excellent sketch program.