Bad thing
A Bad Thing , Also An Evil Deed ( Russian: Недоброе дело , Nedobroje delo), is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on March 2, 1887 in the Peterburgskaja Gazeta .
J. Treumann's translation into German was published in 1891 under the title Eine nöse Tat bei Reclam in Leipzig . Other translations: 1892 into Serbo-Croatian ( Зло дело ), 1895 into Romanian ( O faptă rea - A Disgrace ), 1897 into Hungarian ( Éjfélkor a temetöben - At midnight in the cemetery ) and 1898 into Bulgarian ( Лошо дело ) and Slovak ( Neporiadna vec ).
action
At night three thieves break into a cemetery that is actually guarded by three men. But one sleeps and another has a fever. One of the thieves - posing as a wanderer - distracts the third man, the active guard. Meanwhile, the other two thieves break into the chancel of the cemetery church. When the active guard suspects the truth, the "wanderer" drops the mask and forcibly keeps the duped man in check. The three thieves manage to escape using exactly the path that the “hiker” had the guard shortly before shown and described.
shape
The theme of the narrative - a church theft - is unpredictable. Rather, the utterances of the "Wanderer" to the cemetery guard (which at the end of the story turn out to be a fairy tale) suggest that it was a horror story.
radio play
- Broadcasting in the GDR 1972, a bad thing. The misstep . Two radio plays by Joachim Staritz with Walter Lendrich , Hans-Edgar Stecher and Gerhard Rachold .
German-language editions
Used edition
- Bad thing . P. 47–54 in AP Chekhov: New Master Tales. German by Reinhold Trautmann . 367 pages. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung , Leipzig 1949 (edition 1958, foreword 20 pages by RM)
Web links
- The text
- 1958, record : Sigismund von Radecki speaks The story of Captain Kopejkin from Gogol : Dead Souls , translated by Sigismund von Radecki and A bad thing - story by Anton Chekhov. Christophorus-Verlag Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau , CLP 72104
- Недоброе дело (Чехов) (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- online at litmir.co (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 468 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian reference to first publication
- ↑ Russian references to translations
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk on January 23, 2010
- ↑ Captain Kopejkin entry in WorldCat