The Hunter (Chekhov)

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Anton Chekhov

Der Jäger , also Der Leibjäger and Ein Adonis ( Russian Егерь , Jeger ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on July 18, 1885 in the daily newspaper Peterburgskaja Gazeta . During the author's lifetime the text was translated into Hungarian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Czech.

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The cattle girl Pelageja, around 30 years old, surprises the 40-year-old hunter Yegor Vlasytsch in the oppressively humid forest in the middle of summer. Pelageja laments the absence of Jegor, this tall, narrow-shouldered man with the bright white peaked cap. The last time he stopped by during Easter week, he hit her and left again. Pelageja, whom Yegor is sighing, doesn't understand. She waited in vain for the host for weeks. Yegor, who uses greetings to Pelageja and scolds “stupid woman”, reluctantly gives brief answers to her questions. He, the former farmer and now the best marksman in the district, is currently hunting for the gracious Mr. Dmitri Ivanytsch. The spirit of freedom has now established itself in him and she cannot drive it out of him.

Pelageja interjects that she married him twelve years ago and is still waiting for love. He refuses to be drawn to a dirty workhorse in bast shoes. Count Sergej Pavlytsch also married him when he was drunk and against his will. Egor blames his wife for tolerating the count's arbitrary act. Since she was not a serf, she could have opposed marriage to a drunk. In spite of all this, Yegor asks about Pelageja's struggles to survive in the difficult winter. He can be satisfied with the answer. The hunter gives his able wife a ruble and leaves her standing. Pelageja, who cannot hope for a visit from her handsome husband in the near future, looks after him longingly with tenderness until his bright white peaked cap has disappeared behind the bushes.

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reception

In a letter dated March 25, 1886, Dmitri Grigorowitsch certified the 26-year-old up-and-coming author as “real talent”. More recent reviewers, on the other hand, wanted to note a certain proximity to Turgenev's collection of Recordings of a Hunter , published in 1852 .

Used edition

  • Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in individual volumes : The hunter. P. 342–348 in: Gerhard Dick (Ed.): Anton Chekhov: From the rain to the eaves. Short stories. Translated from Russian by Ada Knipper and Gerhard Dick. With a foreword by Wolf Düwel. 630 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1964 (1st edition)

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annotation

  1. ↑ The serfdom was in Russia abolished in late winter. 1861

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian notes at Lib.ru
  2. ^ Russian. The hunter
  3. ^ Russian Mikhail Ivanovich Kononov
  4. ↑ Russian Natalja Sergejewna Bondarchuk (daughter of Sergei Bondarchuk )
  5. ↑ Russian comments at anton-chehov.info
  6. ↑ Entry in WorldCat