Shh!
Shh! Even Tsss! ... ( Russian Тссс! , Tsss! ), Is a short story by Russian writer Anton Chekhov , in the weekly magazine on November 15, 1886 Oskolki appeared.
The mediocre journalist Ivan Yegorovich Krasnuchin usually writes at home at night. Before he reaches for his pen, he ponders for an unusually long time. It may well happen that during the phase of concentration he pulls his wife out of her slumber and uses her to watch over his work rest. A snoring cook or a child crying in his sleep would surely throw Krasnuchin off the hook. This time his wife has to start the samovar and a beef steak would be nice too. The shuffling of his wife's slippers and her piercingly audible chip-carving for the samovar get on Krasnuchin's nerves. But the newspaper writer just needs several cups of hot tea for the hour-long writing that follows. When the son calls out “Mom, water!”, The boy is greeted by the mother with “Dad is writing! Pst ... “immobilized. Even in the dead of night there are many interruptions. Krasnuchin has to take off his pen because the tenant next door is praying too audibly. The pious gentleman is called to order by the journalist and obeys timid tones.
Exhausted, Krasnuchin ends his “cursed convict work” with a long sigh: “I would have to take potassium bromide … if I had no family, I would give up this work… Write to order! That's awful!"
Used edition
- Gerhard Dick (Ed.), Wolf Düwel (Ed.): Anton Chekhov: Collected Works in Individual Volumes : Pst! P. 593–597 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
- Tsss! ... online in the Gutenberg-DE project (Leipzig 1901, translated by Wladimir Czumikow )
- Wikisource: Тссс! (Чехов) (Russian)
- online at Lib.ru
- online in FEB (Russian)
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 440 (Russian)
- Notice of first publication in the Labor der Fantastik (Russian)