Surgery (Chekhov)

Anton Chekhov

Surgery ( Russian Хирургия , Chirurgija ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on August 11, 1884 in the weekly Oskolki . The author processed impressions from his work as a doctor in the Voskressensk hospital in the same year. During Chekhov's lifetime, the text was translated into Bulgarian, Polish and Serbo-Croatian.

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In the absence of the doctor, Feldscher Kurjatin "treats" the patient Wonmiglasow in the rural hospital. The sexton Wonmiglasow complains of severe toothache. It's a minor matter for the Feldscher. The tooth needs to be extracted. Surgery - so the Feldscher chats - is a minor matter in general. Learned is learned. However, skill is part of it. The Feldscher locates the carious tooth, cuts into the gum and sets the forceps deep. The surgery is not that easy in that case. The Feldscher pulls and pulls, but the pliers finally slide off the tooth. The sexton can hardly stand it because of the pain and demands that the tooth be torn out with one jerk. Then the field scissors: “You are teaching a scholar! ... The surgery ... is no fun ... "It crunches when you pull. The field shear broke off the crown and the root is still in the jaw . The surgeon confesses self-critically that he should have taken the goat foot instead of the forceps . The pain-plagued sexton leaves the country hospital, deeply disappointed by the surgery.

filming

• 1939, Soviet Union , Lenfilm : Surgery - short film (36 min) by Jan Frid with Igor Iljinsky as the “dentist” and Ivan Moskvin as the patient.

Used edition

• Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in individual volumes : Chirurgie. P. 209–213 in: Gerhard Dick (Ed.): Anton Chekhov: From rain to eaves. Short stories. Translated from Russian by Ada Knipper and Gerhard Dick. With a foreword by Wolf Düwel. 630 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1964 (1st edition)

Web links

• The text
  • Wikisource: Хирургия (Чехов) (Russian)
  • online at Lib.ru (Russian)
  • online in FEB (Russian)
  • online in the Komarow library (Russian)
• Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 203 (Russian)
• Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Notes on surgery (Russian) in the FEB on pp. 547–548
2. ↑ Edition used, pp. 211.4. Zvu
3. ↑ Russian surgery black and white film from 1939
4. ↑ Russian Jan Borissowitsch Frid
5. ↑ Russian Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky
6. ↑ Russian Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin
7. ↑ Russian surgery short film on YouTube
8. ↑ Entry in WorldCat