Author(s)

Yi Li, Fan Feng

Corresponding Author

Yi Li

Abstract

Little man is one powerful device for Mikhail Zoshchenko to depict the subtle, complicated and unconscious mental or psychological activities of his characters. In his sarcastic novels, Zoshchenko uses “little man” as the central image to develop the plot and to illuminate his motif. Taking the little man character from Zoshchenko’s novels as the object of research, and using his literary tradition and image setting as the breakthrough point, this paper attempts to integrate a relatively complete “Zoshchenko-style characters” pedigree through analysis of fragmented images scattered in different individual texts.

Keywords

Mikhail Zoshchenko, little man, sarcastic novel.