Before the operation
Before the operation , also The Refugee ( Russian Беглец , Beglez), is a story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on September 28, 1887 in the Peterburgskaya Gazeta . A translation into German was printed in 1897 in No. 38 of the present . Translations into other languages: 1893 into French ( Le fuyard ), 1894 to the Serbo-Croatian ( Бегунац ), 1897 in Danish ( Desertøren ), in 1903 the Czech ( Zběch ) and 1908 into English ( The Runaway - The outlier ).
When Tolstoy looked through Anton Chekhov's narrative work - consisting of almost 500 titles - in 1903, he highlighted fifteen texts from them with the title “highest quality”. One of the outstanding titles was The Refugee .
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The wound on the elbow of the seven-year-old Pawel Galaktionov - called Paschka - has festered for a long time. Finally Paschka's mother pulls herself up and introduces the boy to the doctor Ivan Mikolaitsch. The doctor decides that Paschka has to stay in the hospital and should have an operation the next day. Paschka approves the excellent hospital meal. The main course even contains meat. The various cases of illness - one mentally ill and one with smallpox - irritate him. In addition, the doctor mentioned above does not keep his promise. Dr. Ivan Mikolaitsch actually wanted to catch siskins with Paschka and go to the fair . Instead, the doctor reads with relish in a book.
When another sick person dies, the adult patients are disturbed. Pawel is infected by the disorientation and runs away. A healing assistant catches the boy.
German-language editions
- Anton Čechov: Kashtanka and other children's stories. Selected and translated by Peter Urban (ed.). With drawings by Tatjana Hauptmann . 156 pages. Diogenes, Zurich 2004. ISBN 978-3-257-01107-4 (also contains: Children . Strange case. Der Bläss . Grischa. The refugee. Sorrow . Boys. Something about horses. Oysters. The bad boy. The cook is getting married. Wanjka . The fat and the thin )
Used edition
- The refugee . Translator: Georg Schwarz, pp. 524–532 in Wolf Düwel (Ed.): Anton Chekhov: The Swedish match . Short stories and early narratives. Pp. 639–657: Editor's note. 668 pages. In Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: collected works in individual volumes. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)
Web links
- The text
- Беглец (Чехов) (Russian)
- online at author-chehov.ru (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- online at litmir.co (Russian)
- online in the Komarow library (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 507 (Russian)