A case from practice
A case from practice ( Russian Случай из практики , Slutschai is Praktiki) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which was published in the December 1898 issue of the Moscow monthly Russkaja Mysl .
Wladimir Czumikow translated the text into German in 1899. In the same year the story appeared in Czech ( Případ z praxe ) and then in 1904 in Serbo-Croatian ( Doživljaj iz lječničke prakse ).
action
One day in May, the factory owner Ms. Lyalikov from the Moscow region urgently calls the professor to the bedside of her only daughter Lisa. The medic sends his assistant to Korolev. This travels two stations from Moscow by train and is picked up by a coachman. The Ljalikow'sche calico -Fabrik is four versts away from the station. The coachman passes the factory gate and rushes ruthlessly through the respectfully retreating proletariat. The Moscow Korolev observes the workers and sees "in their faces, their hats, their gait, physical uncleanliness, drunkenness, nervousness and inner insecurity". In the house the doctor is received by the governess Christina Dmitrievna and shown to the twenty-year-old sick woman. Lisa complains of palpitations. She couldn't sleep at night. Korolev noticed that the heart was working properly, prescribed sleep and thought: "We should marry her off long ago." He recommends that the worried mother refrain from further changing doctors. The factory doctor should continue to treat Lisa as before. It's nothing bad.
Korolyov wants to catch the next train. In Moscow, work and family are waiting for the married doctor. The frightened widow Ms. Lyalikov persuades the doctor to stay overnight. Korolev lets himself be persuaded. The dinner is delicious. You drink French wines. Korolev doesn't want to sleep straight away afterwards and wanders through the factory premises. He cannot believe that Lisa is supposed to be the sole heir to the five large factory buildings in which almost two thousand workers are monitored and harassed by around a hundred supervisors. Then the doctor goes to his patient one more time and puts his finger on the wound: "The weather is beautiful outside, it's spring, the nightingales are beating, but you are sitting in the dark and brooding over something." Lisa laments her loneliness. Korolev thinks he knows a way to cure: Lisa has to turn her back on her wealth. But he doesn't know how to tell her and finds the encouragement: “Your insomnia is honorable; in any case it is a good sign. "
reception
- May 8, 2002, Dorothea Dieckmann in Die Zeit : Doctor Chekhov's smile. In the cabinet of rarities of a humorist who considers the world to be incurable .
- The doctor Struben sums up in his comment that the doctor Korolev cannot help his patient Lisa, but he gives her "security and care on a psychological and somatic level".
literature
German-language editions
- A case from practice , pp. 67-78 in Anton Chekhov: The luck and other stories. Translated from the Russian by Alexander Eliasberg . 187 pages. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1962, Goldmann's yellow paperbacks, vol. 868
- A case from practice. German by Gerhard Dick in: Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: The lady with the dog . Master tales. (also contains: The wife. Hearts . Little white foreheads . The murder . Ariadna. The house with the mezzanine . My life. The peasants . The Pechenege. At home . On the wagon. With friends. The person in the case . The gooseberries . Of love . Jonytsch . The new country house. On the business trip. At Christmas time. In the gorge . Anna am Neck . The bishop . The bride ). 612 pages. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 1967 (1st edition)
Secondary literature
- Gerhard Köpf (Hrsg.), Volker Faust (Hrsg.): Psychiatry in the literature . P. 298–310 full text, p. 311: Commentary by Friedhelm Struben. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-322-81230-8
Web links
- The text
- A case from practice , editor Alexander Eliasberg in 1920
- online in the Gutenberg-DE project , translator Korfiz Holm
- A Doctor's Visit , (English, translator Constance Garnett in 1917)
- Случай из практики (Чехов) (Russian)
- online in the Komarow library (Russian)
- online at litmir.co (Russian)
- online with comments on pages 4–6 at chekhov.velchel.ru (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 563 (Russian)