Jonytsch

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Anton Chekhov

Jonytsch ( Russian Ионыч ), also The kitten , is a story of Russian writer Anton Chekhov , the - probably in the spring of 1898 in Nice written - in the September issue of the 1898 Monthly literary supplement of the journal Niwa appeared. The translation into German by Klara Brauner was brought out by Wiener Verlag in 1904.

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In Djalish, a few versts from the governorate S. sstadt away, the young doctor Dmitry Jonytsch Starzew is established. He doesn't even have his own horse and buggy for home visits . To avoid boredom, the stranger is recommended to visit the Turkin House. The house is in S. right next to the governor's palace. Ivan Petrovich Turkin likes to joke and share comical stories in company. There is a warm laugh. Turkin's wife, Wera Jossifovna, reads her own novels with passion. These are all written for the drawer. Real life does not appear in the texts. Yekaterina Ivanovna, the daughter of the house - known as the kitten - creates a "thunderous roar" with her lectures on the piano.

Although Jonytsch is very busy as a doctor, he always visits the Turkin House. Because he has fallen in love with the kitten and wants to propose to him. The young girl is in the mood for jokes - in that respect very much Mr. Papa. When Jonytsch asks the kitten to go on a rendezvous, she sends him to a remote cemetery outside the city that night. Jonytsch, who now employs a coachman, lets himself be driven there and waits in vain for hours between the graves.

When Jonytsch then - long back in the walls of the city of S. - kisses the kitten violently and proposes it, it refuses with thanks. Because the girl is going to the Moscow Conservatory because she wants to become a pianist.

Four years go by. Jonytsch has more and more work as a doctor, is getting more and more wealthy and at the same time always a little more sedate. When Wera Jossifovna invited him to the Turkins, the kitten returned from Moscow. Chekhov writes: “She had grown thin and pale, but more beautiful and slimmer; However, she was already Ekaterina Ivanovna and no longer the kitten, she no longer had the freshness and expression of childish naivety that she had once had. There was something new in her look and her manners - something indecisive, guilty, ... “Jekaterina would like to see Jonytsch, but Jonytsch is now happy that the kitten gave him a basket four years ago. Ekaterina admits that she is "just as much a pianist as Mama is a writer."

Jonytsch never visits the Turkins again. Again a few years pass. Jonytsch now runs “a huge practice” in the city of S. The tone of communication with the group of patients has become rough. This successful doctor no longer allows a conversation. Only his questions may be answered. "... greed has seized him." The love for kittens, it was a long time ago, was the last joy in his life.

Ekaterina still practices the piano for hours every day. She has aged, is ailing and goes to the Crimea with her mother every fall . The old Turk then takes the ladies to the train station, cries goodbye and stays at home.

filming

  • On May 29, 1967, the film In der Stadt S. by Iossif Cheific had its premiere in what was then the Soviet Union . Andrei Popow played the Jonych and Nonna Terentjewa the kitten.

German-language editions

First edition

  • The kitten. Narrative. Translation by Klara Brauner. Envelope from Leo Kober . 101 pages. Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1904

Used edition

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian. The hallway
  2. ↑ Düwel in the follow-up to the edition used, pp. 595–596
  3. ↑ Russian Дялиж
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 391, 14th Zvu
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 393, 3rd Zvu
  6. ↑ In the city of S. in the IMDb , see also Russian В городе С.
  7. ↑ Russian Попов, Андрей Алексеевич
  8. ↑ Russian Терентьева, Нонна Николаевна