"Chekhov's Essays" In the history of world literature, if you talk about the writer with the most profound achievements in short stories, Chekhov should be the first to be recommended.

This book is a book to understand the literary thoughts and creative ideas of Chekhov, the king of the world short story, and to evaluate the works of other writers of his time, as well as to understand Russian culture and the circle of writers and literati of the time.

A real writer hidden behind the immortal image of art, a keen humor, generous and venomous Chekhov, who pursues truth and abandons artificiality, is clearly sketched out in letters and memories of his contemporaries.

The translator Ru Long is a master translator of Russian literature, just like Zhu Shenghao is Shakespeare, and Fu Lei is to Balzac, and Ru Long's name has been inextricably linked to Chekhov.

Ru Long's translation of Chekhov's collected works powerfully and fully conveys the charm and charm of the original work. This is a book that every literature lover or writer should read.

There is a paragraph in the article that you can read: I am either a fool, an overconfident person, or a person who can really be a good writer; Everything I write now does not please me and troubles me; Everything that is locked in my head intrigues me, touches my heart, and excites me. Because I came to the conclusion that what everyone is doing is not what should be done, and I am the only one who knows what should be done.

In a letter to Rosolimo, Chekhov said: "Because of my familiarity with the natural sciences and the scientific method, I always let myself be careful, and whenever I can, I always try to consider things on scientific grounds, and I prefer not to write at all when I encounter impossible." …… I don't belong to the kind of novelist who treats science negatively, and I don't want to belong to the novelist who deduces everything from his own intelligence. ”

A short story should be written for five or six days, always with it in mind, or you won't be able to write a good sentence. Each sentence should be put in the mind for two days before it is put on paper, and it should be greased. Needless to say, I did not follow this rule because of my laziness, but I am more than willing to recommend it to you, a young man, for I have more than once experienced first-hand the beneficial nature of its writing, and I know that all the manuscripts of the true masters have been altered a lot, crisscrossed by deletions, and then added with many patches, which are then cut and altered.

There is nothing more tedious and unpoetic than the worldly competition for survival, which robs life of joy and allows the gloomy cheesiness to pervade. Context is an important element in a sentence. Out of context, sentences often have very different meanings. And in the years to come, countless sentences will be taken out of their context and used as one-sided evaluations and outright condemnations. It's a habit of people, and it always has been.

In the universe, nothing is static, a state never lasts, and everything is in endless motion and change. But we do not perceive this frenzied restlessness in the vast firmament, because the celestial bodies are so far away from us, and our lives are so short. The alternation of day and night is one of the most exciting phenomena in the world. For a short time, the sun was hidden below the horizon, and the lit sky was not completely extinguished. This stargazing night must be extraordinarily beautiful. Thanks to light, we are able to communicate with the universe: light connects us to the universe. A string of notes is scattered in the light, and what we have to do is try to connect them together and play the secret melody of the universe.