Очень коротенький роман

by Vsevolod Garshin, Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин

Рассказ, впервые опубликованный в 1878 году.

Genres: Russian Literature

9 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1878

About the author

Vsevolod Garshin (Russian: Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин) is considered one of Russia's masters of short fiction. The son of a wealthy army officer, he served in the last of the Russo-Turkish Wars (1877 to 1878) and wrote his first story, "Four Days" (1877), while recovering from battle wounds. His subsequent stories, which were praised by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov, often dealt with the subject of evil. Garshin suffered from recurring bouts of mental illness and his masterpiece, "The Scarlet Flower" (1883), was based on his confinement in an asylum. He committed suicide at 33. His collected works were translated into English as The Signal and Other Stories (1912).

Reviews

[Dylan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Truly a very boring short story. The author constantly addresses the reader in a very accusatory tone, mostly for not believing him and his very generic, ordinary story. It's just a story about a guy and a girl, the girl promised to marry him, he went off to war, and she married someone else instead. That's literally it. I guess the point is that war is bad and breaks and ruins people, but of course that's nothing new. And the writing and language are nothing special, so there's really nothing to make up for the utter dullness and banality of the story.

[Tatyana Naumova · Rating 4 out of 5]

Не такой прекрасный, как мой любимый рассказ про инвалида и велосипед, но тоже неплохо

[Ksenia · Rating 4 out of 5]

простенько, но мило