Heavy natures
Heavy natures ( Russian Тяжёлые люди , Tjascholyje ljudi ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on October 7, 1886 in the St. Petersburg daily Novoje wremja . The text was translated into Bulgarian during the author's lifetime.
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Pope Johann had previously received a small estate from the landlady. Johann had bequeathed it to his son Yevgrave Ivanovich Schirjajew. Fedosia Semyonovna has five children with Shiryaev. In a quarter of a century of marriage, she still has not got used to the difficult character of her husband. So, of all things, it causes the landlord to break out during the meal together. The cause is the financial need of the eldest son Pyotr. He wants to take the evening train to Moscow and continue his studies there. Pyotr needs money for the ticket, accommodation, food and new clothes. This time Pyotr refuses to let his father's angry accusation that he is a parasite sit on him and, just as furiously as his father and his blessed grandfather Johann, rejects his father's alms.
The student leaves his parents' home and starts the march to Moscow on a muddy field path in autumn. The anger dissipates while running. Pyotr thinks about the upcoming first snow. Without a kopeck in his pocket, he will soon freeze to death on the road , at the latest in the Kursk or Serpuchow area. When he recognizes a well-known landowner in an elegant Landau at the train station and greets him with a friendly smile, he secretly calls himself a liar. Pyotr thinks of his dear mother, who, like him, usually covers up family problems in front of people with a lie.
Pyotr marches back. The father at home feels guilty. Pyotr remains tough and speaks to his father's conscience. The father shouldn't torment the mother. What has been disciplined contradicts. But Pyotr stays with it; calls the father a ruffian. The mother wants to say something, but cannot utter a sound. The father accuses her of upbringing errors.
Pyotr lies down on his bed. The bad quarrel pains him. He neither blames the father nor pities the mother. Twice in the night the disturbed mother comes and crosses him. In the morning he says goodbye to his father. He says goodbye to the son and provides the money. Pyotr lets the servant drive him to the station.
filming
- 2002, Russia , Ukraine ; Nikola Film: Chekhov motifs - episode film by Kira Muratowa .
German-language editions
Used edition
- Heavy natures. Pp. 211–220 in Gerhard Dick (ed.) And Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: The Swedish match. Short stories and early narratives. German by Georg Schwarz. 668 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)
Web links
- The text
- Wikisource: Тяжёлые люди (Чехов) (Russian)
- online at Lib.ru (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 426 (Russian)
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)