Don Quixote (Bulgakov)

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Mikhail Bulgakov around 1935

Don Quixote ( Russian Дон Кихот Don Kichot ) is a play after Cervantes in four acts by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov , the writing of which was completed on December 18, 1938 in Moscow . On March 15, 1941, the play premiered in Leningrad's Alexandrinsky Theater under Vladimir Platonovich Koschitsch. As early as April 27, 1940 - a month and a half after the author's death - it was performed in the Ostrowski Theater Kineschma . At that time, two other productions were premiered: at the end of January 1941 in the Russian Theater Petrozavodsk and on April 8, 1941 in the Moscow Vakhtangov Theater .

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Towards the end of the 16th century in Spain:

I.

Señor Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo from the village of La Mancha, calls himself Don Quixote and is out for adventure. He's read too many chivalric novels. Aldonsa Lorenzo, a simple peasant girl from the neighboring village, is what he calls his mistress Dulcinea von Toboso . The knight, as the hidalgo calls himself, wants to fight outside for this princess. As a weapon bearer, Sancho Panza, who can neither read nor write, will be at his side. Don Quixote has promised the faithful a kingdom. Sancho Panza cannot imagine his wife Juana Teresa, a simple peasant woman, with a royal crown and wants to remain humble. The rule of governor over a province would suffice for him. As a realist, he calls his master, who goes into the field with a barber's basin as a helmet, the knight of the sad figure. While Sancho Panza prefers his donkey as a mount, Don Quixote calls his Klepper Rosinante.

The first battle outside against rotating windmill blades is lost. Don Quixote's lance lies shattered. Sancho Panza believes the knight dead. Don Quixote gets up. For the next fight, the lance tip is attached to a stable branch lying around. The second adventure follows immediately. Sancho Panza and Don Quixote keep a small travel company, consisting of two Benedictine monks and their servants, for "deceitful scum." Hoping for rich prey, the two attack. The servants wrestle the attackers down.

Passing horse drivers will be in Adventure No. 3 slapped by Sancho Panza. The receipt: All twelve drivers beat the two together.

II

Palomeque, the left-hander, runs a tavern. Don Quixote - still badly damaged from the last scuffle - introduces himself to this “Señor Kastellan” as a knight of the Order of Travelers. The two newcomers brew a balm made from red wine, garlic, plenty of salt, red pepper, acorns, vinegar, lamp oil and vitriol . This essence is supposed to cement a knight halved in battle with the sword. Palomeque takes the brew for his lower back pain. After enjoying the drink, Don Quixote falls over, stands up again and takes on Tenorio Hernandez, a guest of Palomeque, as his next opponent. The "knight" believes the enemy has been defeated because blood flows in rivers. But Don Quixote only slit open a wineskin. The landlord throws the two insolvent travelers out.

At home in La Mancha, Don Quixote's niece Antonia and her friends hatch a plan to bring the "knight" home. But where is Don Quixote actually now? Sancho Panza returns home and reveals the whereabouts: in a rocky gorge of the Sierra Morena .

III

Antonia, disguised as a princess, leads her uncle home to La Mancha. Antonia's lover, a bachelor by the name of Simson Carrasco, who inherited his father's estate in La Mancha, helps bring the knight back home. Don Quixote cannot be happy at home. Dulcinea is gone. He dreamed that the beauty could be found at the Duke's court. The knight sets off in a northeasterly direction. Sancho, who accompanies him, is actually appointed governor of an island by the duke and, as the acting judge on the island, passes some almost Solomonic judgments . But he is quickly fed up with governing and judging. Sancho Panza would rather stay in La Mancha Weinbauer.

IV

Samson follows the travelers disguised as a Knight of the White Moon. The Bachelor's degree challenges Don Quixote to a duel in the presence of the Duke. Because a controversial question cannot be decided otherwise: which loved one of the two champions is more charming - Dulcinea or Antonia? Don Quixote is defeated. His collarbone was broken by Samson. The knight begins his journey home. He sees that Dulcinea is Aldonsa and he is Alonso Quijano, the good-natured one. He thanks Samson for the blow on the collarbone that drove him crazy.

Antonia kisses Samson. Before Don Quixote dies, he admits that Antonia is more beautiful than Aldonsa and that his niece would like to marry this man, who has the soul of a knight.

See also

German-language editions

Output used:

  • Don Quixote. Piece after Cervantes in four acts and nine pictures. Translated from the Russian by Thomas Reschke . Pp. 201–290 in Ralf Schröder (Ed.): Bulgakow. Don Quixote. Pieces. Volk & Welt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-353-00953-1 (= Vol. 12.1: Collected Works (13 Vols.))

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 290
  2. ↑ Russian ru: Кожич, Владимир Платонович
  3. ↑ Notes in the Bulgakov encyclopedia bulgakov.ru in the 6th paragraph (Russian)