The woman without prejudice
The Woman Without Prejudice , Also A Woman Without Prejudice ( Russian Женщина без предрассудков , Shenschtschina bes predrassudkow ), is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on February 10, 1883 in Sritel , a Moscow magazine for humor.
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The 30-year-old athletic officer Maxim Kuzmich Salyutov made a declaration of love to the beautiful Miss Jelena Gavrilovna. Love is returned. The bride's respected, wealthy parents consent to the marriage.
Before the marriage is consummated on the wedding night, Maxim has to make a confession to his Jelena: He is not worth her love, because at twenty he was a circus clown . The new wife laughingly demands evidence.
On the morning after the wedding night, an unmistakable rumble calls Maxim's in-laws to the bridal bed. The parents are astonished to witness the enjoyable gymnastics exercises of their son-in-law. Jelena applauds enthusiastically.
filming
- 2016, Russia , Studio Sergei Ochotin: Joker - 62 min film (Russian) by Alexander Kaurych with Oleg Tolkunow as Maxim and Darja Shcherbakova as his wife Jelena.
Used edition
- Gerhard Dick (ed.), Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in individual volumes : The woman without prejudices. A novel. P. 80–84 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: Женщина без предрассудков (Чехов) (Russian)
- online in Lib.ru (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 80 (Russian)
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)