Ariadna (Chekhov)
Ariadna ( Russian Ариадна ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared in the December 1895 issue of the Moscow magazine Russkaya Mysl .
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On the steamboat trip from Odessa to Sevastopol , the Moscow landowner Ivan Ilyich Shamochin tells the first-person narrator, a writer, how he ruined himself and his father during the liaison with Ariadna Grigoryevna.
North of Moscow: Shamochin, the only son of a professor, graduated from university and has been involved in agriculture for three years. Meanwhile, he falls in love with the 22-year-old slender, graceful Senator's daughter Ariadna. This is the sister of his decrepit neighbor Kotlowitsch. Noble Ariadna doesn't even have the money for a new hat. She had turned the rich prince Maktuev off. The sensitive 28-year-old shamochin already recognizes at the first tête-à-tête that Ariadna gives tenderness without love. The neighbor Kotlowitsch's former college friend, the 36-year-old Mikhail Ivanytsch Lubkow, travels to Ariadna and, with his hands-on manner, is more successful than Shamochin. Lubkow is married to a 42-year-old. The couple have children. Neighbor Kotlowitsch finds out about his sister's relationship and asks Shamochin, Ariadna's friend, for assistance.
Ariadna begs her rich Moscow aunt for a thousand rubles and leaves her homeland. Shamochin is invited to Abbazia by her . He travels and finds Lubkow at his friend's side. Ariadna successfully poses as a wealthy landowner among Russian spa guests. Shamochin is reluctant to move among the rich in such health resorts. Ariadna wishes Shamochin to make friends with Lubkow. Shamochin granted Ariadna this wish. The new friend immediately relieves him of three hundred rubles. Ariadna also consumes considerable sums of money. Shamochin's father, the professor, helps several times without the slightest contradiction; mortgages his property. Shamochin can't stand the way Ariadna spends the nights with Lubkow and confronts her: "Why did you let me come here abroad?" When Ariadna mocks him, he leaves the devious hypocrite for Russia.
When Ariadna is abandoned by Lubkow months later - still walking in Mediterranean climes - she asks Shamochin for salvation. The called one goes to Italy and becomes Ariadna's lover. He enjoys her body. Shamochin makes plausibility: "... I was young, healthy and strong, and she was sensual like ... all cold natures ...". Ariadna lets herself be celebrated as a painter in Rome , Naples and Florence , "although she has not the slightest talent". This woman really wants to please.
Shamochin, on the return trip to Russia with Ariadna, feels obliged to marry this woman he does not love.
The first-person narrator Ariadna is introduced on the steamboat trip mentioned at the beginning. She poses as an admirer of the writer. Shamochin knows better. The hypocrite has not read anything from the author.
Adaptation
- 1990, ARD and RAI : Ariadne - TV film by Jochen Richter with Barbara Wussow , Albert Fortell and Nikolaus Paryla .
German-language editions
Output used:
- Ariadna , p. 201–228 in Anton Chekhov: The witch. Stories. German by Michael Pfeiffer. 388 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1977 (1st edition, licensor: Rütten & Loening, Berlin)
Web links
- The text
- Ариадна (Чехов) (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 550 (Russian)
- Notice of first publication in the Labor der Fantastik (Russian)
- Entries in WorldCat
annotation
- ↑ The reader can imagine Chekhov as the first-person narrator (Edition used, p. 228, 19. Zvo).