Bad luck (Chekhov)
Pech ( Russian Неудача , Neudatscha ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on January 11, 1886 in the weekly Oskolki . During the author's lifetime the text was translated into Bulgarian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Czech and Swedish.
Parents just want to marry off their daughters. So did the Peplow couple. It overhears his daughter Natascha, who is apparently grating licorice in the next room with Stschupkin, the teacher of fine writing . Clearly, this is a declaration of love, the father wants to hear out and urges the mother in the dark room to take the saint off the wall. No sooner said than done - whoosh, the parents are over there and bless their children according to the motto “be fruitful and multiply”. The duped Stschupkin is speechless with shock and is willingly blessed by the future father-in-law. The parents cry with happiness. When, in the course of the blessing, the father lets the mother pass him the holy image, Stschupkin gets his chance. The mother accidentally removed the portrait of the writer Laschechnikov. The calligrapher takes advantage of the confusion and leaves the dust.
Used edition
- Gerhard Dick (Hrsg.), Wolf Düwel (Hrsg.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in individual volumes : Pech. P. 457–459 in: Gerhard Dick (Ed.): Anton Chekhov: From the rain to the eaves. Short stories. Translated from Russian by Ada Knipper and Gerhard Dick. With a foreword by Wolf Düwel. 630 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1964 (1st edition)
Web links
- The text
- Wikisource: Неудача (Чехов) (Russian)
- online at Lib.ru (Russian)
- online in FEB (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 352 (Russian)
- Notice of first publication and translations in the Labor der Fantastik (Russian)
- Entry in WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old Testament Gen 1.28 EU , edition used, p. 458, 18. Zvo
- ↑ Russian Iwan Iwanowitsch Laschetschnikow
- ↑ Entry in WorldCat