The reapers (Iwan Bunin)
Die Schnitter ( Russian Косцы , Koszy ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Iwan Bunin , which was written in Paris in 1921 and appeared in the 1923 Almanac Medny wsadnik ( The Bronze Rider ) in Berlin .
overview
Is there still hope? That's the big question. Ivan Bunin remembers observing migrant workers from Ryazan in his Oryol homeland . This well-rehearsed, disciplined team of men once professionally mowed a wide swath of grass in the forest in June . That excess width came about through coordinated scythe in time . The observer had waited for a break from work and then sought a conversation. The reapers were kind to passers-by. The Ryazans ate boiled toadstools . They laughingly passed over a warning from the local passer-by about the poison, because it tastes as fine as chicken.
Bunin, who wrote in Paris in 1921, reminiscing about the lost homeland, mourns the loss of a feeling that was previously believed to be impossible to lose: Wherever the Russian person - here the migrant worker - might move, the home sky would always remain above him; "The borderless native Russia" And the poet - remembering the magical chants of the reapers at work - ends with resignation with the emigrant apodict: "... everything has its time ... for us the fairy tale is over."
reception
In 1985, Kasper wrote that Bunin painted an idyll of his native Russia from a distance from Paris.
German-language editions
- Used edition
- The reapers. German by Ilse Tschörtner . P. 38–43 in: Karlheinz Kasper (Ed.): Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953 . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985
Web links
- The text
- online at Lib.ru (Russian)
- online at bunin.niv.ru (Russian)
- online in the Komarow library (Russian)
- Entry in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Медный всадник , see also The bronze rider
- ↑ Edition used, p. 40 above
- ↑ Edition used, p. 42, 8th Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 43, 9. Zvu
- ↑ Kasper in the afterword of the edition used, p. 556 below