Good people (Chekhov)

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Anton Chekhov

Good people ( Russian Хорошие люди , Choroschije ljudi ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on November 22, 1886 in the daily newspaper Novoje wremja .

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Moscow writers in the 1880s: the narrator occasionally visits Vladimir Semyonych Lyadowski and his sister, the doctor Vera Semyonovna. The trained lawyer Vladimir is employed by the railroad, but his passion is literature. Vladimir reviews literary works for an insignificant newspaper. Wera's husband, an architect, had died of typhus. The young widow then gave up her job and moved in with her brother. She looks admiringly over Vladimir's shoulder as he writes his feature articles. But when, after reading more closely, her spirit of contradiction stirs, the young widow hurts her brother's pride as a author. The brotherly affection gives way to a cool distance on both sides. Wera is finally only tolerated by Vladimir in the apartment. Your condescending silence irritates him. One day she kisses him coldly on the forehead and leaves. Wladimir accompanies Wera to the street. The doctor doesn't even look around to find her brother, travels to the N. Governorate and wants to fight smallpox there. Returning to the desk, Wladimir goes over his features. One day he developed pneumonia, developed a fistula on his knee and died.

When the narrator collects writers among writers in the Tatar restaurant for the dead man's grave in the Wagankow cemetery , he doesn't get a kopeck.

Used edition

  • Good people. P. 278–290 in Gerhard Dick (ed.) And Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: Das Swedish matchstick. Short stories and early narratives. German by Gerhard Dick. 668 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notes under Gute Menschen (Russian) in FEB on pp. 666–668
  2. ↑ Russian Tatar restaurant