十九世纪末是俄罗斯批判现实主义文学发展的高峰期。作为这一创作潮流的终结者和完成者的契诃夫以医生的职业冷静和文学巨匠的敏锐洞察切开了俄罗斯病体的毒瘤，刮除心灵的烂疮。他无情地鞭挞了俄罗斯民族性格的劣根性和民族文化的畸形———精神的萎靡窒息，灵魂的异化扭... The end of the nineteenth century is the peak of the development of critical realism in Russia. Chekhov, the Terminator and the Finisher of this creative trend, cut the cancer of the sick in Russia and rid his soul of sore spots with the calmness of the practitioners and the keen insight of literary masters. He mercilessly flogged the bad roots of the Russian national character and the deformity of the national culture --- apathetic spiritual suffocation, the dissimilation of the soul twisting ...