Hunter's Notes

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivan Turgenev, painting by Ilya Repin (1874)

A Hunter's Notes is the title of a collection of stories by the Russian writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev . The collection was published in book form in 1852 and made the author famous for the first time.

History of origin

In 1847, Turgenev's story Chor und Kalinytsch appeared in the magazine Sovremennik ( Der Zeitgenosse ) . After this first success, Turgenev wrote another twenty sketches and stories, which were also published in the Sovremennik and appeared in book form in 1852 under the title Notes of a Hunter . In 1854 the work was published in German and French translation. In the 1870s, the cycle was expanded to include 25 stories (including The Living Reliquie , 1874).

content

The title character is a noble landowner roaming around on the hunt . Turgenev describes Russian rural and provincial life from the perspective of this first-person narrator . In doing so, he combines lyrical descriptions of nature with realistic portrayals of the Russian landed nobility and the serfs. Although written from the standpoint of a neutral observer, the stories are an indictment of serfdom , oppression of the peasants and exploitation by landlords and self-interested administrators.

background

Ivan Turgenev was a passionate hunter himself throughout his life . He also knew the brutal reality of everyday peasant life from childhood on, because he came from a noble family, and his parents' estate Spasskoje with thousands of serfs was administered with great severity by his mother. Turgenev recalled: “I was born and grew up in an atmosphere where punches, kicks, beatings, slaps and the like were the order of the day. I was beaten almost every day for every little thing. "

The appearance of a hunter's notes was probably only possible due to an oversight by the censorship authorities. The success of the book and the attention it attracted to grievances prompted the tsarist authorities to take action against the author. In 1852 Turgenev was arrested because of his obituary for Gogol's death , which had appeared without the consent of the censors, and exiled to his estate for a year and a half.

In 1861 serfdom was abolished in Russia under Tsar Alexander II .

meaning

"... to have reported to the next generation and posterity what serfdom is ..." Julian Schmidt

"... poetic accusation speech against serfdom ..." Alexander Herzen

“... a cross-section through the patience of the Russian peasantry; exploited in everything, also in love ... “ Hermann Pongs

stories

The A Sportsman's Sketches include the following specific sketches and stories:

  • Chorus and Kalinytsch
  • Jermolaj and the miller's wife
  • The raspberry spring
  • The district doctor
  • My neighbor Radilow
  • The owner of the farm, Ovsyanikov
  • Ljgow
  • The test area
  • Kasjan from the beautiful view
  • The mayor
  • The office
  • Birjuk
  • Two landowners
  • Lebedjan
  • Tatiana Borisovna and her nephew
  • The death
  • The singers
  • Pyotr Petrovich Karataev
  • The tryst
  • Hamlet of Shchigry district
  • Chertopkhanov and Nedopyuskin
  • Chertopkhanov's end
  • The living relic
  • It rattles!
  • Forest and steppe

expenditure

  • Ivan S. Turgenev: Notes of a Hunter . 1st edition. Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2001.
  • Ivan Turgenev: A Hunter's Notes . From the Russ. by Peter Urban . With an afterword by Peter Urban, Manesse Verlag , Zurich 2004.
  • Ivan Turgenev: Notes of a Hunter . 1st edition. Antigonos Verlag, Paderborn, 2012. ISBN 978-3-95472-088-0
  • Ivan Turgenev: Notes of a Hunter . 1st edition. Newly translated and with an afterword by Vera Bischitzky, Hanser Verlag, Munich, 2018. ISBN 978-3-446-26018-4

filming

The story Birjuk was filmed in 1978 under the same title (German: Der Waldhüter or Isegrim ) by the Soviet-Ukrainian director Roman Balajan .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Dornacher (ed.): Turgenev for our time . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1989, pp. XIV – XV.
  2. ↑ Klaus Dornacher (ed.): Turgenev for our time . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1989, p. XXIV.
  3. ↑ Klaus Dornacher (ed.): Turgenev for our time . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1989, p. XXVII.
  4. ↑ Klaus Dornacher (ed.): Turgenev for our time . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1989, p. XXX.
  5. ^ Hermann Pongs: Lexicon of World Literature . Englisch Verlag, Wiesbaden 1984, p. 919.