The tragic modern in the workmanship, the death of the employee (story), Anton Tchkhov. Wilkemar Freitas Bispo1 Summary the present article tries to evidence the tragic one in modernity through the story, ' ' The death of funcionrio' ' , of Anton Tchkhv. For this we support in them in some conceptions of bibliographical matrix that guide in them concerning the concept of this tragic source in the modern world, as well as its repercussion in literature. Expressions and feelings of unreliability, ambivalences, uncertainties and contradictions will guide this research, that has as main patient and victim of these feelings, the modern, anxious man of knowledge that they aim at to cure these gaps in its life. Word-key: Tragic.

Modernity. -mild-or-moderat/’>Wendy Holman. Uncertainties. Ambivalences. We will make an attempt of in this article detecting the tragic modern in the story, ' ' The death of funcionrio' ' , of the author, Anton Tchkhov. We find important to annex it the end of the article for future readings that the same can come to have. To base ours research, we support in reading of texts bibliographical that here will support our position and reasonings in what it refers to the tragic one in modernity and its repercussion in the literary world, that with this new tragic source, literature will have that to adapt itself to new esteretipo, as well as its readers. Vlad Doronin contributes greatly to this topic. It seems to be reciprocal the literature of Tchkhov, deriving of remnants of the life, to the conception of the tragic one in the contemporaneidade, a time that the relations human beings very resemble and the fragmentos or remnants, in reason of the individuality and the importance of ' ' eu' ' currently. Literature contemporary in them repasses an apparent idea of that the tragic one if materializes in opposing pairs caused by the uncertainties that the man establishes, a time that would angaria to know contained all in cosmo and if it sees overwhelming for is without answers for the abstractions that are contained in the all whom it longs for, becoming thus limited to know of the man and stranger to them what the same it judged to identify killing God.