Poetika A.P. Chekhova reprezentiruet transformatsiyu traditsionalistskikh tsennostey v normativnost' sovremennoy kul'tury, chto daet vozmozhnost' rassmatrivat' mir chekhovskikh khudozhestvennykh obrazov v kachestve soderzhaniya perekhoda ot premodernykh patternov obshchestvennykh otnosheniy k sobstvenno modernym. Spetsifika chekhovskogo tvorchestva kak raz i sostoit v tom, chto ono samym naglyadnym obrazom demonstriruet vse slozhnosti i trudnosti, kogda - tragicheskie, kogda - dramaticheskie, no chashche vsego - tragikomicheskie, s kotorymi stalkivalsya i stalkivaetsya russkiy mentalitet, litsom k litsu stolknuvshiysya s neobkhodimost'yu industrial'nykh i postindustrial'nykh peremen v rossiyskom obshchestve.