Child wisdom and man's folly

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Lev Tolstoy
portrayed by Ilya Repin in 1887

Children's wisdom and man's folly , also The girls were smarter than the adults and The children are smarter than the old ( Russian Девчонки умнее стариков , Dewchonki umneie starikow ), is a short story by Lev Tolstoy , which was written in May 1885 and published in November of the same year . In 1982 the text in the 4th reader of the 10th volume Powesti und Erzählungen 1872–1886 came out in the 22-volume Tolstoy edition in the publishing house for artistic literature in Moscow .

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The episode - a parable on forgiveness - illustrates the Bible verse "If you do not repent and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven."

During the snow melt in the Holy Week splash two little girls - Amelia and Akulinchen - the middle of the village street in a big puddle. Since they have been dressed up by their mothers, they are not allowed to dirty themselves. But it happens to Akulinchen anyway. The sprayed by hand Miss Sieveking new Sarafan will rise to a dispute between the two mothers. The fathers interfere. Several men get into each other's hair on the village street. Meanwhile, Malchen and Akulinchen are scratching a gully from the puddle towards the roadside with a stick. While both are happy about their functioning “brook”, the men's brawl reaches its climax. Akulinchen's grandmother approaches and admonishes the foolish peasants with the saying above.

German-language editions

  • The children are smarter than the old. German by Arthur Luther . Pp. 152–154 in: Gisela Drohla (Ed.): Leo N. Tolstoj. All the stories. Fifth volume. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2nd edition of the edition in eight volumes 1982)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian notes (Примечания)
  2. ↑ Russian Л.Н. Толстой. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах, Vol. 10
  3. ↑ NT ( Matthew 18.3  EU )
  4. ↑ Russian Малаша, Malascha
  5. ↑ Russian Акулина, Akulina , lat. En: Aquilina