The enchanted pilgrim

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Nikolai Leskov in 1872

The Enchanted Pilgrim ( Russian Очарованный странник , Otscharowanny strannik ) is a story by the Russian writer Nikolai Leskow , which was written from 1872–1873 and was published from August 8 to September 19, 1873 in the St. Petersburg weekly Russki . The author had woven impressions of a trip to Kexholm and Valaam Monastery from the summer of 1872.

Leskov lets the slightly simple-minded horse connoisseur Ivan Severyanytsch Flagin, a newer Bogatyr hero à la Ilya Muromets , tell his life story - that is, his ordeal through Russian lands - in lengthy terms .

The southern Russian -looking working title The Telemachos von der Schwarzerde reveals the reference to Fénelon's The Strange Events of Telemach .

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The 52-year-old enchanted pilgrim Iwan Flagin, also called Golowan, looks back after a long journey, finally finding a place in the monastery as a novice. The serf's son grew up in Count K.'s stables in the Orjol governorate . Ivan lost his mother early. As an adolescent, he was a pioneer in driving the Count's six-in-hand car. During a steep descent, he runs over a monk. The dead man appears to Ivan in a dream and complains that he had sent him to his death without confession. Then the victim prophesies that Ivan has been promised to God. That’s what happens. Before that, Ivan nursed an infant with goat's milk as a "wet nurse" in Nikolajew , cured his English illness , flees Penza , kills a Tatar , lives ten years as a prisoner mutilated in the Ryn Mountains , where she does polygamy Tartars with, becomes the father of several children, heals the Tartars as a "doctor", finally speaks fluent Tatar , teaches the steppe nomads to be afraid as a fireworker, heals their own broken feet, flees to Astrakhan at the age of 33 , becomes a prince of his Oryol fed up, pitifully drowns the unhappy young gypsy girl Gruscha and goes to the Caucasus for fifteen years as a soldier of Pyotr Serdyukov . Ivan leaves the wild mountains after being promoted to officer for bravery in front of the enemy and decorated with the St. George's Cross . As I said, the hero reaches his goal, the monastery on Lake Ladoga .

After the experience of the Caucasus, Ivan found himself in calm waters. As an information officer in a Petersburg address office, it immediately became boring. But as an officer with a war medal, he was not allowed to be insulted or beaten. Ivan admits that he “killed many innocent people” in his life. In addition, he had to witness some cruelty. The Tatars had murdered two Russian missionaries. The nomads did not want to become Christians at all. Ivan's eponymous enchantment is related, among other things, to a drunkard magnetizer . He had weaned Ivan from drinking with a drinking cure and had given the heroine the opportunity to daydream en masse.

People die all the time. This is how the magnetizer, this drink devil, goes there too.

Even in the monastery, Ivan cannot really calm down. The abbot lets the novice, who refuses to submit, grind salt for months in a basement hole for the kitchen. But this detention is still more mentally stimulating than the years of imprisonment with the Tatars. Because the monks always look down at the imprisoned. When Ivan then prophesies to his passing visitors, the perplexed abbot knows no more punishment and releases him. Ivan is allowed to make a pilgrimage to Solovki .

Adaptations

  • 1990: The Enchanted Pilgrim , Mosfilm by Irina Poplawskaja
  • 2002: The Enchanted Pilgrim , opera by Rodion Shchedrin

reception

  • 1959: Setschkareff accurately characterizes Iwan Flagin: “... an irrepressible temperament, of childlike kindness, innate decency and honesty - but with a decidedly underdeveloped intellect - a fact that is largely responsible for the many 'adventures' he has to endure ; … “Role models for a prose review through Russia as part of a tour, as presented here, would be Gogol's Dead Souls and Lermontov's Bela .
  • 1969: Reissner highlights the text with the "strange title" as one of Leskov's "greatest stories". The tall noble warrior Iwan Flagin not only acts as a mere bracket between the numerous exuberant stories, but also stands for the Russian people in their thoughts and feelings.
  • 1985 Dieckmann thinks that Leskow does not represent an ideal hero with Ivan Flagin. The restless would be guilty and his life story was tragic.

literature

German-language editions

  • The enchanted pilgrim. German by Günter Dalitz. P. 602–756 in Eberhard Dieckmann (ed.): Nikolai Leskow: Collected works in individual volumes. Vol. 3. The sealed angel. Stories and a novel. 795 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1985 (1st edition)

Output used:

  • The enchanted pilgrim. German by Günter Dalitz. S. 164–326 in Eberhard Reissner (Ed.): Nikolai Leskow: Collected works in individual volumes. The enchanted pilgrim. 771 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1969 (1st edition)

Secondary literature

  • Vsevolod Sechkareff : NS Leskov. His life and his work. 170 pages. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1959

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Russian world
  2. ^ Reissner in the follow-up to the edition used, p. 752 above
  3. ↑ Setschkareff, p. 89 middle and p. 91 above
  4. ^ Reissner in the follow-up to the edition used, p. 751 below
  5. ↑ Golowan - Russian large head
  6. ↑ Footnote 177, p. 760 in the edition used: Count Sergei Michailowitsch Kamenski (1771–1834)
  7. ^ Russian. The enchanted pilgrim , film
  8. ↑ Russian Irina Poplawskaja
  9. ↑ Russian The Enchanted Pilgrim , Opera
  10. ↑ Setschkareff, p. 89, 3rd Zvo to p. 91, 7th Zvo
  11. ↑ Setschkareff, p. 89, 17. Zvo
  12. ↑ Setschkareff, p. 90, 18. Zvu
  13. ↑ Reißner in the postscript output used, p 751, 6. ACR to S. 753 center
  14. ^ Dieckmann in the follow-up to the 1985 edition, p. 766 below