The Gooseberries

Chekhov is a subtle psychologist, revealing a person’s inner world with unique irony. Despite its brevity—or perhaps because of it—he is a master at portraying the problems of happiness and love, hoarding and indifference. In every word of Chekhov’s stories, even those not written but spoken in an audiobook, one can feel his disgust for vulgarity and everyday life, the dreary, petty-bourgeois existence.