The red crown
The red crown ( Russian Красная корона , Krasnaja korona ) is a short story by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov , which appeared on October 22, 1922 in the Russian-language literary magazine Nakanune in Berlin .
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The 29-year-old first-person narrator concludes it can't be otherwise - he's crazy. Because when his 19-year-old dead brother Kolja comes to him, wears the red crown and speaks to him with blood-smeared lips, his admission to room 27 is okay and the assistant's "hopeless" characterizes his current condition aptly.
Kolja had followed the general in a squadron . In Berdyansk a worker was hung from a lamp post because he belonged to the Bolsheviks .
The first-person narrator, looking for his brother Kolja, had found this volunteer fighting for the whites behind Berdyansk. Kolja was so badly wounded by a shrapnel that the doctor could no longer help.
filming
- 1990 Soviet Union , 5th channel (Lentelefilm), story of a disease , TV film by Alexei Prasdnikow.
reception
Schröter mentions the autobiographical character of the text. Both of Bulgakov's brothers served as volunteers under General Denikin during the civil war and were considered missing until 1922. Schröter sees the narrator's insanity as being caused by the guilt he has incurred as an older brother who was unable to protect the younger ones.
German-language editions
Output used:
- The red crown. Historia morbi . Translated from the Russian by Thomas Reschke . Pp. 158–164, in Ralf Schröder (Ed.): Bulgakow. The red crown. Autobiographical stories and diaries. Volk & Welt, Berlin 1993. (Collected Works. 5.) ISBN 3-353-00944-2
Web links
- The text
- Wikisource Красная корона (Булгаков) (Russian)
- online at bulgakov.lit-info.ru (Russian)
- Entry in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)
- Notes in the Bulgakov encyclopedia bulgakov.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Накануне - The evening before
- ↑ Russian Istorija bolesni
- ↑ Schröter in the edition used, literary historical notes, p. 366