Albert (narration)
Albert is a short story by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy from 1858.
Albert is a very talented musician who is unemployed and has neither money nor shelter. Delesow, a wealthy man, is so enthusiastic about Albert's music that he offers him shelter. After two days of having a good chat and drinking together and Albert playing the violin, an argument begins to destroy the good relationship: Delesow forbids his domestic servant to continue to give the heavily alcoholic Albert wine and schnapps and to let Albert out of the house. Delesow's good intention to save Albert from his miserable life is taken up by Albert as malicious and so he leaves the house in the middle of the freezing night after stealing the keys from the domestic servant and thus gaining access to a bottle of schnapps von Delesow and walks through the streets drunk. On the way to Anna Ivanovna's (a maid) apartment, it is difficult for him to distinguish between his strong visions and reality. In the end, he lies down on the doorstep of the apartment because he was refused entry. Albert is found drunk and unconscious by two guests leaving the apartment. Albert, still trapped in his visions, thinks that he will be buried now when he is carried into the apartment for fear of freezing to death.
German-language editions
- Albert. German by Alexander Eliasberg . P. 262–294 in: Gisela Drohla (Ed.): Leo N. Tolstoj. All the stories. Second volume. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2nd edition of the edition in eight volumes 1982)
Individual evidence
- ↑ great-authors.albertarose.org
- ^ Tolstoj, Lew, all stories, insel taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main, 1961; Second volume of five volumes, pp. 118–150