The man in the case

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The man in the case ( Russian Человек в футляре , Tschelowek w futljare), also The man in the case , is a story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared in the July 1898 issue of the Moscow magazine Russkaja Mysl . Arthur Luther's translation came onto the German-speaking market in 1926.

Anton Chekhov

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The man in the case is the first internal story from the Little Trilogy . The remaining inner stories are called The Gooseberries and Von der Liebe .

In the framework of the narration , the old vet Ivan Ivanytsch Tschimscha-Glimalaiski and the high school teacher Burkin go hunting in the hallway of the village of Mironositskoye. First - on the first of the three evenings - the teacher tells the doctor the story of the man in the case . The next day, the two hunters come into rainy weather and can spend the night with the 40-year-old landowner Aljochin. On the second evening the doctor tells the teacher and the landlord the story of the gooseberries . The reader already suspects: On the last evening Aljochin tells his two guests the story of Love .

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Sculpture in Taganrog : Man in the case

The narrator Burkin had lived next door to one another in the same house with his colleague, the 40-year-old Greek teacher Belikov. Even when the weather was nice, the bachelor Belikov - small and crouched - went to school in a padded paletot , galoshes , with an umbrella and folded-up collar. Almost every one of his everyday objects was in a case - the umbrella, the pocket watch , the pocket knife. Belikov loved the Greek language and delighted in the sound of the word Anthropos . The outstanding character trait of Belikov was his excessive moral rigor. For fifteen years this teacher had controlled the high school. Even the headmaster was afraid of him. Belikov had cultivated camaraderie with his colleagues in his own way. Now and then he would visit one or the other teacher in his apartment, sit down and be silent for minutes. Belikov's death came like this: When Mikhail Savvich Kovalenko came to the grammar school as a new teacher of history and geography, this stocky Ukrainian was followed by his handsome sister Warenka. The latter was only capable of two emotions - laughing or crying. Then the director's wife had an idea: Belikov should be married to the unmarried Warenka - after all, she was the daughter of a councilor and owned a homestead at home in the Ukraine. Everything started well too. Even the narrator contributed his mite. Even Belikov took part; babbled to the lady about the wonderful sound of the word anthropus. Warenka laughed at it. However, the geography teacher, who shared the apartment with his sister, didn't like his colleague Belikov at all. The strong Ukrainian threw Belikov down the stairs during his comradely home visit - Warenka was just absent. After the nerve-wracking silence of the visitor mentioned above, it was because of a triviality that there was ultimately a quite tangible row.

Belikov dies in bed a month after being thrown out. The teaching staff and their followers attend the funeral. Warenka cries when the coffin with the dead man goes into the pit. The mourners have some consolation. It seems that the deceased is satisfied. He lies in his coffin like in a sheath.

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German-language editions

  • The man in the case and other stories. Translation by Ottomar Schwechheimer and Walter Richter-Ruhland. Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1949. 125 pages
  • The person in the case. Stories. Translated by Kay Borowsky . Afterword by Ludolf Müller . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, 334 pages, ISBN 3-15-009901-3

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Düwel in the follow-up to the edition used, pp. 592–593
  2. ↑ Russian The Small Trilogy ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Russian State Library  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rsl.ru
  3. ↑ Düwel in the follow-up to the edition used, p. 593, 12. Zvo
  4. ↑ Russian Мироносицкое
  5. ↑ Anthropos
  6. ↑ The person in the case in the IMDb , see also Russian Человек в футляре (фильм)
  7. ↑ Russian Хмелёв, Николай Павлович
  8. ↑ Russian Андровская, Ольга Николаевна