From the notes of someone irascible

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Anton Chekhov

From the notes of a quick-tempered man ( Russian Из записок вспыльчивого человека , Is sapissok wspyltschiwowo tscheloweka ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on July 5 and 12, 1887 in the numbers 26 and 27 of the Budilnik weekly satirical sheet . During the author's lifetime the text was translated into Bulgarian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Czech and Hungarian.

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The first-person narrator Nikolai Andrejitsch spends the beautiful season in the summer with his mother. Nikolai, who is called Nicolas by the educated ladies in the wooded area, calls himself a serious person. He wants to do his doctorate as a financial lawyer with the dissertation Past and Future of the Dog Tax. The aspiring young scientist begins his doctoral thesis with a historical outline, starting with the ancient Greeks . When he is about to make Herodotus and Xenophon pioneers in the dog tax sector, he is disturbed by such a lovable, affectionate Nadenka or Warenka. The girl is afraid of the big dog in the neighborhood, which she has to pass on the way home. The always very polite Nicolas cannot refuse the request for help and at the climax of the dangerous passage thinks: dog - dog tax - dissertation. Nadenka - or is she called Warenka? - clings to Nicolas and won't let go. The financial lawyer has to go to the girl's mother, has to attend lunch and then look for mushrooms and berries in the forest. Nicolas speculates that Nadenka-Warenka could also be called Maschenka. In any case, the scientist asserts himself in vain against the mother and daughter's intention to marry. The reason is his successful fight against one of his dominating character traits - the irascibility: Nicolas is bravely silent when he is to be captured against his will to marriage. However, Nadenka-Warenka-Maschenka took the silence for the request to attack the young man from the front. It ends with a marriage. Nicolas is now married and envies the officer in the neighborhood; a disabled veteran. He has had his mental insanity attested by a doctor as a result of a wound to his temple and is immune to further attacks by the Nadenka-Warenka-Maschenkas. Nicolas never got the idea for the certificate. Its relatives are teeming with adequate traps. One uncle died of drunkenness, one suffered from acute absent-mindedness and an aunt stuck out her tongue every man.

German-language editions

  • From the notes of someone irascible. German by Georg Schwarz . P. 45–56 in Marga Erb (Ed.): Anton P. Chekhov: From the notes of an irate man. Stories. 412 pages. Reclam, Leipzig 1972, without ISBN

Used edition

  • From the notes of someone irascible. P. 470–481 in Gerhard Dick (ed.) And Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: Das Schwedische Zündholz . Short stories and early narratives. German by Georg Schwarz. 668 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notes on pp. 681–682 in the FEB under From the Notes of a Irritated Man (Russian)