Rainy weather (Chekhov)
Rainy weather ( Russian: Ненастье , Nenastje ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on June 8, 1887 in the daily newspaper Peterburgskaja Gazeta under the heading Fleeting Notes . The text was translated into Polish during the author's lifetime.
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The lawyer Alexei Stepanych Kvashin leaves his 20-year-old wife Nadezhda Filippovna and her widowed mother in the summer house because of the bad weather and prefers to work in the nearby town. The husband has never stayed away for five nights, the young wife wonders, checks the train and cab to make sure everything is okay and quickly returns to her mother. “He's cheating on us, mom!” Nadezhda exclaims desperately. According to the house servant Aljoscha, the landlord did not come home once in just under a week. His mother complains that he has no right to behave like this. After all, the merchant's widow gave a dowry of twenty thousand rubles.
With all the crying and wailing, the deceived overlook how the sky clears up over the summer house. The fraudster comes in and lies that he spent day and night in two bankruptcy cases in Galdeev's office. Out of the corner of his eye he peers at the dismissive, tearful faces of his ladies.
Suddenly the women are beaming. Nadezhda, delighted, hurries through the room and prepares the snack for a proper reception. She is ashamed; slandered an innocent man. Nadeshda and her mother admire the speech of this clever, dear, beautiful man. The lawyer Kwashin muses: You may only be of the merchant class, but you can endure it with you for three days.
theatre
- April 25, 2014, recording of a performance (19 min, in Russian) from the theater workshop "202". Director: Kristina Frolowa. With Ekaterina Sergievich and Timur Isbassarow.
German-language editions
Used edition
- Rainy weather. P. 453–458 in Gerhard Dick (ed.) And Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: Das Schwedische Zündholz. Short stories and early narratives. German by Georg Schwarz. 668 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)
Web links
- The text
- Wikisource: Ненастье (Чехов) (Russian)
- online at Lib.ru (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- online in the Komarow library (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 487 (Russian)
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)