The canvas knife
The canvas knife ( Russian Холстомер ) is a short story that Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote during one of his greatest creative periods. The story appeared in 1886. Tolstoy wrote it in the 1860s. It is about the life of a piebald horse.
action
The eponymous horse is called the canvas knife because of its long, wide stride. As an old, piebald gelding , it tells the story of its life to its younger conspecifics for five consecutive nights at its last stud.
It was once famous across the country for its power and passed into the possession of hussar officer Nikita Serpukhovskoy at a young age. This daring bon vivant rides canvas knife on a night in which he chases an unfaithful lover to such an extent that it is used by new owners mainly as a pack animal.
Towards the end of the story, Serpuchowskoj, now fat, heavily in debt and finally abandoned by his former lover, comes to the owner of the last stud of canvas knives. He remembers his piebald gelding and indulges in glorious times, which makes it all the more clear to the reader Serpukhovskoy's meanwhile decay. At the end, Tolstoy describes the death of the canvas knife as well as the sniffing of his former master and relates human and animal decline to one another.
radio play
In 1956 the NDR produced Tolstoy's story as a radio play. The radio processing was done by Wolfgang Weyrauch , the music was composed by Winfried Zillig and the direction was directed by Otto Kurth .
The first broadcast took place on October 3, 1956. The radio play still preserved has a playing time of 48'00 minutes.
The speakers were:
- Erwin Kalser : canvas knife
- Karen Hüttmann : Horse
- Inge Fabricius : horse
- Gudrun Thielemann : horse
- Jo Wegener : horse
- Hermann Schomberg : Nests
- Hanns Ernst Jäger : Nikita
- Heinz Sailer : Ancient
- Andreas von der Meden : Wassjka
- Herbert AE Böhme : stable master
- Walter Klam : General
- Trude Mordo : Lady
- Rudolf Fenner
- Karl Fleischer
- Benno Gellenbeck
- Walter Laugwitz
- Ingrid Hosse
- Reinhold Nietschmann and
- Clemens Wilmenrod
Web links
- Vladimir Jakowlewitsch Linkow: Commentary on the text at RVB.ru (Russian)
literature
- Canvas knife. German by Gisela Drohla . Pp. 114–164 in: Gisela Drohla (Ed.): Leo N. Tolstoj. All the stories. Fourth volume. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2nd edition of the edition in eight volumes 1982)
- Leo Tolstoy: Master narratives (= Manesse library of world literature ). 8th edition. Manesse-Verlag, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7175-1396-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian В. Я. Линков