The Death of a Government Clerk is one of the stories I read when I was a kid, and had never forgotten since. It's so short, but so affecting, especially that e

The Death of a Government Clerk is one of the stories I read when I was a kid, and had never forgotten since. It's so short, but so affecting, especially that ending. There is a sense of absurdity and bleakness in Chekhov's writing that chills me to the bone every time. The endings, although I know things are going to end badly, are always somehow more forlorn and absurd.