The willow tree
The willow tree ( Russian Верба , Werba ) is a little story of Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which on April 9, 1883, the Palm Sunday sgeschichte in the weekly Oskolki appeared.
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Years ago, the owner had given up the small old mill on the Kosjawka brook. The ruin is still standing because it is supported by the mighty willow . The old tree also serves as a support for the toothless old man Archip, who once worked here as a miller's boy and is now fishing - leaning against the trunk. The Poststrasse from B. to T. leads past the mill. The stagecoach crosses the weir every lunchtime .
On a Sunday, Archip observed how the stagecoach kills the sleeping postman, whose wallet is hidden in the hollow willow trunk and continues after the bloody act.
A week later Archip carries the bag into town. The head of the rent office relieved the bag by half of its contents, returned the archip and sent it to the police. There is no money in my pocket. After spending one night in a police prison, Archip is allowed to return to his perch and crucian carp on the willow tree.
The driver comes, looks in vain for the booty in the willow trunk and beats Archip after he has openly admitted his good deed. Then both live in the mill. After a few months the postman confesses to the head of the rent office that the postman was murdered. The chief calls the murderer a fool and chases him away. The coachman drowns himself at the weir by the willow tree.
filming
- 1984, The Willow Tree - TV feature film by Sohrab Shahid Saless with Josef Stehlík , Peter Staník (1947–1995) and Milan Drotár (January 12, 1937 - April 15, 1991).
Used edition
- Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in single volumes : The willow tree. P. 100–104 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: Верба (Чехов) (Russian)
- online at Lib.ru (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 100 (Russian)
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)