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"The House with the Mezzanine" (Russian: Дом с мезонином, romanized: Dom s mezoninom) is an 1896 short story by Anton Chekhov, subtitled (and also translated as) "An Artist's Story" (Рассказ художника, Rasskaz khudozhnika).
His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. [citation needed] Out of a total of ten novels, three are erotica: Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes. Baker also writes non-fiction books.
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The House with the Mezzanine [An Artist's Story] April 1896 Дом с мезонином My Life (novella) December 1896 Моя жизнь Peasants: 23 August 1897 Мужики The Petcheneg [The Savage] 2 November 1897 Печенег At Home: 16 November 1897 В родном углу In the Cart [The Schoolmistress] 21 December 1897 На ...
The Mezzanine is essentially plotless, a stream-of-consciousness fiction that examines in detail the lunch-hour activities of young office worker Howie, whose simple lunch (popcorn, hot dog, cookie and milk) and purchase of a new pair of shoelaces are contrasted with his reading of a paperback edition of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.
In 1904 the critic Yuri Dyagilev (writing under the pseudonym Yu. Chereda), analyzed "Anna on the Neck" and "The House with the Mezzanine" along the lines of his own conception according to which Chekhov and Dostoyevsky were the masters of paeans to the 'philistine's happiness'. [5]
In 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty and vastness of the steppe. [2] On his return, he began the novella-length short story, which he called "something rather odd and much too original", and which was eventually published in Severny Vestnik (The Northern Herald).
The story was first published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta ' s No. 231, 24 August (old style) 1887 issue, in the Fleeting Notes (Летучие заметки) section. [1] After drastic stylistic revision (which resulted in the omission of the large bulk of the secretary Zhilin's speech with the description of dishes) Chekhov included it into Volume 1 of his Collected Works published by Adolf ...