The Sorochinsk Fair

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The Sorotschinsker fair , even the fair in Sorochyntsi and the fair to Ssorotschinzy ( Russian ярмарка Сорочинская , Sorotschinskaja jarmarka ), is a short story of the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol , which in 1829 wrote, appeared 1831st The story was recorded in the first part of the evenings in the hamlet near Dikanka . The author was born in Sorochinsk .

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In the Ukraine, the people flock to the Sorochinsk Fair in summer. So did the widowed farmer Solopij Tscherewik up there on a load of ten sacks of wheat. The draft animal, a mare, is also for sale. Cherewik's 18-year-old daughter Paraska from her first marriage and her stepmother Chiwrja are still sitting on the wagon.

The contentious second wife of Tscherewik messes with the handsome young Grizko on the way and is pelted with rubbish by him during the journey - as a return coach, so to speak.

Paraska falls in love with Grizko, the fellow "in the white coat with the light eyes". While the two young people in Sorochinsk are embracing and whispering vows of love in their ears, Tscherewik learns from a market visitor that he will probably not be able to sell the ten sacks of wheat because the fair is an enchanted place. The devil always appears as a grunting wild boar and sticks his trunk through the listening window.

The visitors to the fair really can't beat the devil. If you snatch his red smock from him and throw it into the fire, the garment turns out to be non-flammable. If people cut up the red devil's smock with an ax, then the red spots flow together again as if by magic before the eyes of the horrified fair visitors. Terrible - pig snouts appear grunting every nook and cranny.

The lustful stepmother Chiwrja is secretly in a hut with a priest's son. At her behest, he has to hide in the wooden floor when Tscherewik approaches in the midst of a crowd. The devil also appears. The fearful Cherevik hides under Khivrja's skirt. The turmoil in the hut makes the floorboards slide. The priest's son falls down.

All's well that ends well. The mare can be sold. Against the will of the stepmother, Tscherewik gives the likeable Grizko daughter Paraska to wife. The narrator is convinced that the wedding will be celebrated in such a way that the guests' feet will certainly still hurt after a year from dancing Hopak .

Adaptations

Opera

musical

  • 2004, Ukraine , Russia : The Sorochinsk Fair - musical by Konstantin Schotajewitsch Meladze.

Used edition

  • The Sorochinsk Fair. German by Johannes von Guenther , pp. 85–123 in Johannes von Guenther (Ed.): Nikolai Gogol: Gesammelte Werke. Volume I . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Hohberg on October 30, 2010: Listening window
  2. ↑ Russian. The Sorochinsk Fair
  3. ↑ Russian Konstantin Schotajewitsch Meladze
  4. ↑ Russian. The Sorochinsk Fair