On The Sense Of The Absurd In Chekhov's Novels

Anton Chekhov is a great writer in the Russian literary history, who lives in the turning period between "the golden age" and "the silver age". His works, not only absorbs the essence of traditional Realism, but also displays the quality of Modemism. This thesis is attempting to discuss characteristics of Modemism which is displayed in his novels from the point of absurd consciousness.This article is divided into three chapters. The first chapter analyzes the manifestation of absurd consciousness in his novel: the first section expounds the meaning of "absurd", as well as the development of the shape of the absurd consciousness which is displayed in the literary work. The second section will analyzes the manifestation of consciousness in this novel from the aspect of content, by using the through the massive descriptions of the absurd emotion (gray weary, inseparable lonely, futile efforts, fear of disassimilation, and despairs to future). The third section discusses this consciousness after the form angle to melt into the creation, causing the work to follow the modemism literature through the analysis corresponding art technique (content with detail real fusion, perceptual response of thoughts, and free association).The second chapter emphasizes combining the culture and the time background, by taking the writer's personal experience as the cut-in point, and discusses the origin of the absurd consciousness in his novels. This chapter is divided into two sections, the first section elaborates the collapse of traditional values as well as the philosophical influence through the writer's growing experience, which facilitates the formation of the writer's absurd consciousness. The second section elaborates the writer's puzzle to the turbulent time, the hard life and the disease which aggravates him day after day, and discusses the influence that given by the writer's bitter life experience to "absurd".The third chapter emphatically discusses the denotation of the absurd consciousness. The first section discusses the disassimilation phenomenon which given by the traditional culture and the modem civilization to the Russian psychological characteristics. From this explanation this consciousness carries the meaning of critique, whose intention is to arouse people's attention, thus to change the present situation, which also manifests a higher level of Realistic spirit. The second section discusses writer's creative breakthrough which thisconsciousness facilitates, and how to enlighten Realistic literature and tally with modernism literature.