A very short novel

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Garschin in the war year 1877

A very short novel ( Russian Очень коротенький роман , Otschen korotenki roman ) is a short story by the Russian writer Vsevolod Garschin , which appeared in the October issue of the St. Petersburg satirical magazine Strekosa ( The Dragonfly ) in 1878 .

The author chose the subtitle The Weeping Man based on Hugo's Laughing Man .

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Saint Petersburg in 1877: The young first-person narrator meets Marja Ivanovna G., known as Mascha, on the Neva - Kai Newskij in the spring . Mascha learns from conversations with the narrator that he is for the war. Therefore, the beauty concludes, he must also take part in the war. The narrator lets the eloquent Mascha send him to war. Please return home from the battle. Because then, Masha promises, she will marry him.

The narrator moves into the field; marches through Romania and is decorated with the St. George's Cross after his first fight against the Ottomans . After the next battle, the narrator's right leg has to be amputated. In the summer he was brought back to Petersburg and given a wooden leg. Now the cripple can hobble to Masha in the Galernaya. His letters went unanswered. What he sees in Mascha's apartment is easy to see through. The girl is now someone else's bride. The narrator takes part in the merry wedding as a bride and groom and then goes home to his lonely, cold bed.

German-language editions

Used edition

  • A very short novel . P. 43–49 in Vsevolod M. Garschin: The stories. Transferred and with afterword by Valerian Tornius . 464 pages. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1956 (Dieterich Collection, Vol. 177)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Стрекоза (журнал)
  2. ↑ Russian Человек, который плачет , Tschelowek, kotory splash
  3. ↑ French L'Homme qui rit (anno 1869)
  4. ↑ Russian Очень коротенький роман, footnote 1
  5. ↑ Galernaya Street (Russian)