А.П. Чехов "Сценки"

Aqueronte72

15 sep 2024

⭐ 8/10

An excellent ode to dramaturgy; the third story "Жених и папенька" (Boyfriend and Dad) I couldn't resist seeing it twice; Lebedev and Basilashvili are seriously contagious. Unlike other Chekhov works that have been revived for the cinema and that usually carry an irrefutable burden of solemn morality, because they are philosophically more profound, such as Ward 7 or The Lady and the Dog, the common denominator of this compilation is more The humorous thing is good, yes, but not without the strange aftertaste of sad realism in the conclusion. In -Boyfriend and Dad- the groom does everything, including inventing a debt of 44 thousand rubles for embezzlement, to escape from the future father-in-law, Kirill Trifomovich, from the engagement with Natasya Kirillovna; "Sum, sum, this smells like Siberia, however if Natasya loves you she must follow you there, what kind of love is that which fears victims" the old man answers, LOL. In the second story "Intruder", the worker Denis Grigoriev is arrested for stealing a nut or walnut from the railway tracks. He is detained by the guard Akinfov who cannot care less about the crime than about the false pride of presenting a detainee before the court. corresponding and so, it is evident that he works, but when the dull worker is questioned he gets even worse, because he details the way in which, helped by others like a certain Mitrofan, they do this every day and it takes about 10 hours." ercas. The chief inspector, the alarmed faces he makes are no less funny than the reasons that old Grigoriev explains, saying that he does it so that he can weigh the fishing net with the lead. Scared, they give him a prison sentence according to pun. Article 1081. The detainee does not care about the accident that may occur due to the derailment but rather about the 3 rubles of bacon from the fair that he must pay to the other 2 brothers besides him. Without a doubt, one. One of the saddest because it reflects the despicable nature of many human beings is the story of "The Winning Ticket" where the couple makes a mistake and believes that they have won the lottery by having ticket 9,499. The husband even yells at Mashenka showing the advertisement in the newspaper and they are filled with vain dreams about what they will do with the 75 thousand rubles; But immediately, the husband thinks that he has no reason to spend all that money on his wife - regardless of the fact that she was the one who bought the ticket; and Mashenka also complains about how bad it will be if her husband has to accompany him. In the end, in an open dispute over how they will spend or distribute the money, they realize that they have not been the winners and the harsh reality returns to them to show them that they only cruelted each other to continue living cursing each other. The story of "Егерь" (The Hunter) does not have a happy ending either, so to speak, since Yegor Vlasovich, the most famous hunter on the trails, is detected and followed by a woman, Pelageev. We will immediately realize that it was his wife but the hunter recognizes that he cannot return to her because he could simply never live in the countryside but in the cities. He agrees to sit on the grass and reminds Pelageev that they are only husbands because of the debt that was contracted at some point with Count Sergei Pavlovich and who actually married them because they were his slaves. Yegor Vlasovich now lives with the teacher Dmitri Ivanovich in Okhotniki and says goodbye, as fresh and carefree, to his wife as if nothing had happened. The last story of the omnibus is the Graduate Examination of Efim Zakharovich, a receiver at the post office but who longs for the rank of Galevkosky registrar.