Asja (Turgenev)

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Ivan Turgenev in 1859

Asja , also Assja und Assia ( Russian Ася ), is a novella by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev , which was completed in November 1857 and appeared in issue 1 of the Sovremennik in 1858 . In 1869 the translation into German came out at E. Behre in Mitau .

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The 45-year-old Russian narrator recalls his stay in the left Rhine een town S. At the time he was young twenty-five years and been prosperous. Sometimes he had a ferryman take him across the river to the neighboring, somewhat larger town of L. In L. he had made the acquaintance of the wealthy Russian squire Gagin and his half-sister Asja - actually Anna.

The "soft, pampered Great Russian aristocrat" Gagin dabbles as a landscape painter. The narrator makes friends with him. The behavior of the 17-year-old, headstrong Asja puzzles the narrator, but he is attracted by Asja's "wild charm of the original". Gagin puts the narrator in the picture. Gagin's father gave birth to Asja together with the maid of Gagin's late mother. Asja had lost her mother when she was nine years old, had been raised by her father and had been taken to a boarding school in St. Petersburg after her father's death .

The narrator dances a waltz with Asja and realizes that he loves the young girl, but he keeps it to himself. Gagin reveals to the narrator in private that his sister loves him. Gagin wants to know if he likes Asja. The narrator says yes. In that case, Gagin expects the narrator to marry Asja. The narrator then distanced himself: “Marry a seventeen-year-old girl with your character! Yes, how is that possible! ”The siblings travel down the Rhine via Cologne to London . The narrator cannot find those who have fled from him either on the Rhine or on the Thames .

Twenty years later, the narrator, who has meanwhile become an aging bachelor, mourns his lost love. The farewell greeting from his beloved Asja - scribbled on a piece of paper - comes back into his fingers. With a single word, Asja states on the paper, she confessed her love to the narrator, but there was no reply.

around 1865: Pelageia Turgenewa,
married Pauline Brewer * 1842; † 1919 (Полина Брюэр)

background

The Turgenev researchers are at odds. In one version Turgenev is said to have recreated the fate of his daughter Pauline quite aptly, and in the other one Turgenev's half-sister Varvara Schitova is adopted as a model for Asja.

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literature

Output used:

  • Asja. German by Ena von Baer , p. 300–358 in: Iwan Turgenew: First love and other short stories. With an afterword by Friedrich Schwarz. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1968 (3rd edition).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Turgenev in Sinzig and Turgenev in Linz , S. should stand for Sinzig . The L. would then stand for Linz am Rhein . Turgenev's text shows that the narrator undertook a hike from S. into the foothills of the Hunsrück . That then led on the wrong track south of Koblenz .
  2. ↑ Asja had stammered "Your" during one of the decisive tête-à-têtes (edition used, p. 348, 20. Zvo).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Современник / 1858, pp. 39–84
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 345, 1. Zvo
  3. ↑ Russian Житова, Варвара Николаевна
  4. ↑ Russian Ася (повесть)
  5. ↑ Russian Ася (фильм)
  6. ↑ Russian Коренева, Елена Алексеевна
  7. ↑ Mitauer Edition 1868, pp. 271–357 (translator not specified)