The Habrovan Brewer

The Habrovan Brewer is a framework story by Ferdinand von Saar from 1900 .

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A killing out of jealousy in the neighborhood gives the frame narrator and his friend Doctor Hulesch the impetus to argue about the jealousy. The doctor now talks about his younger years.

Internal narrative 1

The young country doctor Hulesch has his practice near the city of Olomouc. One evening he is called to a brewer outside town. After a strenuous sleigh ride, he reaches the property. It turns out that the brewer's toddler, a colossal figure with childlike eyes, is seriously ill. In private, the brewer confesses to the doctor that he only fetched him so late because he actually wanted the child to die because he believed it was not his. He suspects a young treasurer who was once in the house when the brewer had to go away for 24 hours. Morbidly jealous as he seems, he now believes in his wife's infidelity, although he has told his older servant, who looks like a billy goat, not to let his wife out of his sight. The doctor tries to calm him down. But when he comes back the next day, he finds the brewer hanged in the malt floor. Years later the doctor in a Viennese inn overheard a conversation by the said finance supervisor, from which the story of that night emerges. Years later, Hulesch met a woman in a market who looked very much like the brewer. It turns out that she is actually his daughter.

Internal narrative 2

As a young financial overseer, the inn teller has to control the brewery in Habrovan. The young wife of the brewer has done it to him, but he does not manage to get to know her because the brewer's jealousy makes any contact impossible. Suddenly the brewer has to travel for 24 hours. During the night, the guard climbs up a tree in front of the young woman's room and wants to get into her. But he has to see how the old servant is faster and is received by the half-undressed woman.