Kazimir Stanislavovich
Kasimir Stanislawowitsch ( Russian Казимир Станиславович ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Ivan Bunin , which appeared in the May 1916 issue of the Petrograd magazine Letopis .
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On April 8, Kazimir Stanislavowitsch, a seedy drinker, took the train to Moscow in Kiev . The next day, the train reached its destination seven hours late. Kasimir Stanislavowitsch chooses a shabby hotel that he knows from his Moscow student days. On the same day, he spends his cash - up to just under five rubles - in a large “pub of low quality” and in a brothel on the outskirts of Moscow. He finally staggers back to his hotel in a daze and wakes up in his room quite late on April 10th. Kazimir Stanislavovich has not attended a church for about thirty years. Now he dresses properly as best he can and shyly enters the “old low church” in Moltschanowka in the late afternoon. Kasimir Stanislavowitsch takes a seat in a corner; so that he can see the bride and groom well, but is not seen so closely. The clergy and the wedding guests come. The veil of his daughter, "who did not even know that he existed in the world," brushes him in passing. Kazimir Stanislavovich only has eyes for his daughter. The bride appears to him in all her jewelry as a princess. The stocky groom at her side becomes a minor matter.
Kasimir Stanislavowitsch apologized in writing on a slip of paper in the hotel room for his suicide, but did not have the strength to do so. He accidentally leaves the slip of paper and begs a little money at the station for a ticket to Bryansk .
reception
In 1995, Borowsky emphasized Bunin's psychologically sound preliminary work on the plausibility of the suicide attempt. Thus, thanks to the mastery of the narrator, the plot appears credible to the reader, although obvious questions regarding the history (for example, how does Kazimir Stanislavowitsch know the wedding date, the location of the wedding, etc.) remain unanswered.
German-language editions
- Used edition
- Kazimir Stanislavovich . P. 74–85 in: Iwan Bunin: Der Sonnenstich. Stories. Translated and edited by Kay Borowsky . 150 pages. Reclam, Stuttgart 1995 ( RUB 9343), ISBN 3-15-009343-0
Web links
- The text
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)