Gotami
Gotami ( Russian Готами ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Iwan Bunin , which was written in Odessa in 1919 and published in November 1920 in the journal Russki emigrant in Berlin .
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Gotami, poor people's daughter, was born in the foothills of the Himalayas . Growing up, the dark-eyed girl turned out to be not particularly smart, but also not stupid and not beautiful, but also not ugly. Gotami grew tall and was nicknamed the drought . Obedience to any rule was a basic characteristic of Gotami. Once when she had washed clothes by the river and then bathed in the water, the young prince observed her nakedness and thought that the young girl was not skinny after all. Obedient as Gotami was, she mated with the prince by the river whenever he called her. Gotami was allowed to spend the months of her subsequent pregnancy in the royal palace. Since she was not married to the prince, Gotami had to give birth to her child outside the royal walls in a grove. Gotami was married by the prince, but he ignored the mother of his child. Gotami obediently retired to her primitive hut in the royal palace grounds. Because luck - as in the Gotamis case - inevitably leads to grief.
reception
In 1985 Kasper wrote that the "banal love story" of the humble Gotami was preprinted in 1920 in the Yuzhnoje Slowo newspaper . The legend contrasts sharply with Iwan Bunin's revolutionary diary Cursed Days from those years 1918 and 1919.
German-language editions
- Used edition
- Gotami. German by Ilse Tschörtner . P. 5–8 in: Karlheinz Kasper (Ed.): Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953 . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985
Web links
- The text
- Notice of first publication in the Labor der Fantastik (Russian)
Buddhism
- ↑ Iwan Bunin writes, Gotami (see also Gotami ) turned in her grief to the “Brotherhood of the Yellow Robe” (edition used, p. 8, 7th Zvu).
Individual evidence
- ↑ russ. Русский эмигрант - The Russian emigrant
- ↑ Russian Южное слово - southern word , see also Russian Южная правда - Juschnaja prawda , Nikolajewsk on March 20, 2014, 7th paragraph
- ↑ Kasper in the afterword of the edition used, p. 555, 1st Zvu