The speaker

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Anton Chekhov

The speaker ( Russian Оратор , orator ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on November 29, 1886 in the weekly Oskolki . During the author's lifetime, the text was translated into Bulgarian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Czech.

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The young and gifted wedding, anniversary and funeral orator Grigori Petrovich Sapoikin is brought to the funeral of the college assistant professor Kirill Ivanovich Wawilonow. Although the latter assesses the deceased as a cunning fellow, beast and crook, he follows the urgent call of a friend. The deceased is carried to the grave so slowly that Sapoikin and the friend can stop for three quick stops along the way. Vavilonov died of two diseases that are widespread in Russia - alcohol and an angry woman. The latter cries when the coffin goes into the pit "heartbreakingly, as it should be". The widow even goes one better - screams that she wants to go down to her husband, but changes her mind.

As I said, the speaker Sapoikin knew the dear deceased, but confused him in his address with another secretary - Prokofi Osipowitsch, who was in the mourning community. The congregation whispered when the speaker gave the wrong name and praised a lively guy over the green clover.

After the ceremony, Prokofi Ossipowitsch forbids the only flaw raised in the speaker - his unsightly, ugly face.

filming

  • The speaker , short film (Russian, 10 min) with Igor Ilyinsky on YouTube .
  • 1971, Soviet Union , TV company Screen : These different, different, different faces ... - episode film by Igor Ilyinsky (Russian).

Used edition

  • Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: Collected Works in Individual Volumes : Der Redner S. 597–602 in: Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhow : Vom Regen in die Traufe. 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)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ References to publications in the Labor der Fantastik (Russian)
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 599, 10. Zvo
  3. ↑ Russian short film: The speaker
  4. ↑ Russian Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky
  5. ↑ Russian Экран (творческое объединение)
  6. ↑ Russian Эти разные, разные, разные лица…
  7. ↑ Entry in WorldCat