Mitja's love
Mitjas Liebe ( Russian Митина любовь , Mitina ljubow ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Ivan Bunin , which was completed on September 14, 1924 in the Sea Alps and was published in 1925 in the Paris Sovremennyje sapiski . Fischer published Käthe Rosenberg's translation into German that same year in Berlin .
The obsession of the closed idler Mitja ends fatally.
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The young landowner Mitri Palytsch, called Mitja, falls in love with the pretty Katja as a student in Moscow . The girl attends a private drama school. When the lustful school principal approaches the attractive girl unequivocally, Mitja's love for Katja can be described almost exhaustively as jealousy. The rather old rival acts as if Katja were already his property. Mitja would like to kill her lover in his "raging pain". Bunin writes about Mitja: “Was it Katja's soul or was it her body that almost robbed him of his senses ... when he unbuttoned her blouse and kissed her heavenly beautiful, virginal breast, which she gave him with touching devotion and the shamelessness of pure innocence darbot? "
For the coming spring and summer, Katja and Mitja agree to take a six-month break because of jealousy. She wants to spend the beautiful season in the Russian south and he takes the train home to his small estate in the Verkhovye area .
Staying in the country is a torture. Katja doesn't answer any of Mitja's letters. The unfortunate man, who reads Pissemski out of boredom but does not understand, shouts through the alley of the estate park: "If there is no letter in a week, I'll shoot myself!"
Soon Mitja no longer rides to the post office and no longer writes. The always funny girls who have to do earthworks on the estate call the skinny Mitja Greyhound . The young man is looking for a way in which he can live without Katja and gets involved with Aljonka, the young wife of the forester Trifon. Mitja pays Aljonka's service of love in the shed in the park behind acacias, lilacs, currants, burdock , mugwort and tall grass with five rubles . Aljonkas repeated "Well, because fix it" during sexual intercourse is disgusting to Mitja. The hero then shoots himself "powerfully and with pleasure" in the mouth with the revolver. Shortly before the suicide, Katja had informed him in a brief letter - the only one during that summer - that the relationship had ended.
reception
- 1983. Kasper writes that Michail Prishwin , Fyodor Stepun and Henri de Régnier praised the text. Thomas Mann had Mitya's Love acknowledged as "the incomparable epic tradition and culture" of Russia. Rilke said that for Mitja, after Katja's letter, life lost its meaning.
German-language editions
- Mitja's love . P. 7–77 in: Iwan Bunin: Mitjas Liebe. Five stories. From the Russian by Erich Ahrndt (also contains: The first day of the Great Lent. The Tree of God. Heinrich. Cold autumn ). 141 pages. Piper (Piper series, vol. 1529), Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11529-2
- Output used:
- Mitja's love. German by Erich Ahrndt . P. 106–176 in: Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953. Editing and epilogue: Karlheinz Kasper . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985 (1st edition)
Web links
- The text
- Entry in the Labor der Fantastik (mentioning the first publication, in Russian)
- Entries in WorldCat
Remarks
- ↑ To be more precise: Mitja has two younger siblings - Anja and Kostja. The noble father died nine years before the start of the plot. The mother Olga Petrovna, a serious forty-old woman, runs the business together with the Starost .
- ↑ Bunin writes about the married woman Aljonka: "Her girl's breasts were under her blouse."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edition used, p. 176
- ^ Translator Käthe Rosenberg (* 1883; † 1960 in Switzerland), see also under her sister Ilse Dernburg
- ^ Translation by Käthe Rosenberg in 1925
- ↑ Edition used, p. 114, 3. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 146, 6. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 170, 10. Zvo and also p. 171, 3. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 176, 2nd Zvu
- ↑ Kasper in the afterword of the edition used, p. 560, 14. Zvu