The reapers (Iwan Bunin)

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Ivan Bunin in 1901 in a photo of Maxim Dmitriev

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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Медный всадник , see also The bronze rider
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 40 above
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 42, 8th Zvu
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 43, 9. Zvu
  5. ↑ Kasper in the afterword of the edition used, p. 556 below