Rudin (Turgenev)

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Ivan Turgenev in 1859

Rudin ( Russian Рудин ) is the first novel by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev , which was completed in 1855 and published in the Sankt Petersburg Sovremennik in 1856 . E. Behre published the translation into German in 1870 in vol. 3 of the twelve-volume Turgenew edition in Mitau .

shape

Action becomes a minor matter in the novel. Rather, it is philosophized. Events are mostly only reported.

The almost omniscient narrator generalizes: "It didn't fall on his head, everyone thought" and also lets secondary characters think - for example Pandalewski.

Protagonists

All protagonists are related to one another through at least one relation. For example, the title character, the clever, astute Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Rudin and the landowner Michailo Michailych Leshnjow are friends as former fellow students. Leshnjow calls himself a phlegmatic and Rudin an enthusiast who lives at someone else's expense and will die in misery.

An unhappy love connects and separates the 35-year-old Rudin and the 17-year-old Natalja Alexejewna. Natalja, the daughter of the noble, wealthy Darja Mikhailovna Lassunskaja, finds her happiness in the marriage with the estate manager a. D. Sergei Pavlych Volynzew. Wolynzew's sister Alexandra Pavlovna Lipina, a rich widow without children, marries Leshnev. Wolynzew and Leshnjow are friends.

Minor characters

Each minor figure briefly sketched below fulfills at least one very specific function in the structure of the novel.

The bitter misogynist Afrikan Semyonytsch Pigassow calls Rudin in a bilious speech a salivary and clever speaker. With the defamatory accusation, he challenges Leshnjow to an eulogy of Rudin. Pigasov, known as a formerly corrupt official, is the villain in the novel.

The 22-year-old Bassistow is the teacher of the two underage sons Darja Lassunskajas. As the good guy in the novel, Bassistov is an admirer of the philosopher Rudin.

Leshnjow tells Alexandra Lipina about Pokorski. This is his and Rudin's already deceased college friend. The booth of the impoverished student Pokorski was a contact point and second home for Leshnjow, Rudin and other Russian students abroad during his lifetime.

The amiable, agreeable, soulful, maudlin, even secretly sensual Pandalewski is happily accommodated as boarder and foster son by rich, widowed middle-aged landowners. Pandalewski is Darja Lassunskaja's spy. He overhears the lovers Natalja Alexejewna and Rudin. The creep Pandalewski carries the vows of love to Natalja's mother.

content

When Rudin, “a poor man without rank”, appears in the country at the house of the landowner Darja Lassunskaja, his clever speeches are followed with open mouths by many members of the assembled Russian landed gentry. The newcomer, who studied in Heidelberg and Berlin , is celebrated as an eloquent philosopher. The lady of the house applauds Rudin's victory in the battle of words over the fallen official Pigasov. Leshnjow tells Darja Lassunskaja about Rudin's life. Rudin's father, a poor landowner, had died early. Rudin's mother suffered from then on and died alone. During the conversation, Leshnev did not have a high opinion of the old college friend. He also describes Rudin to Alexandra Lipina as a person cold as ice who plays the fiery.

After two months at Darja Lassunskaja's estate, Rudin borrows money from the landlady and Wolynzew. He is writing a "treatise on the tragic in life and in art".

Reasonably, as Rudin likes to act, he wishes the very young Natalja Alexejewna luck with Wolynzew in private. A little later Rudin and Natalja confess their love. Wolynzew, who wants to marry Natalja, is angry when Rudin calls on him and makes no secret of his happiness. Wolynzew wants to challenge the smart talker Rudin. Wolynzew's friend Leshnev warns that you don't kill a philosopher.

Darja Lassunskaja is delighted when Rudin realizes her resistance to the daughter's connection and gives in because he is poor. He leaves her property of his own accord. Natalya is different. The girl is deeply disappointed by Rudin's faint-hearted resignation.

Rudin, stooped, continues his wandering through Russia sadly and devotedly; is seen between Penza and Tambov . Years later he runs into Leshnev by chance. Rudin tells his friend about three of his last experiments. First of all, he wanted to cultivate a sandy stretch of land in the Smolensk governorate together with a wealthy eccentric .

Dmitri Kardowski : Paris, June 26th 1848: Rudin on the barricade

The project failed because the scientific approach, based on book knowledge, was not followed by any action. Rudin left his wealthy employer carelessly. Second, Rudin wanted to make a river in the K. Governorate navigable with a certain Kurbejew. This project could not be realized either. The mill owners braced themselves against the building plans and Kurbejew was even poorer than Rudin. Thirdly, Rudin tried his hand at teaching at a high school, but stumbled upon the pitfalls of scheming colleagues. Leshnjow offers his friend shelter on his estate for the rest of his life. Rudin refuses because he does not deserve it; botched his life, always thought in the wrong direction. Leshnjow contradicts: “Be silent! ... Everyone remains what nature made him ... maybe that's your job to wander forever. "

Rudin, “born as a wind vortex”, finds no rest on his estate “with two and a half serfs”. He took part in Paris during the June uprising alongside Parisian workers from the national workshops in the fight against General Cavaignac's soldiers and fell on the barricade on June 26, 1848.

filming

reception

  • 1856: Contemporary Russian readers claim to have seen both Bakunin and Granowski as models for the character of Rudin. At heart , Rudin is a second Turgenev, to whom Bakunin's philosophical slogans would have gone to his head.
  • 1969: Dornacher: During the reign of Nicholas I , the alien aristocratic intelligentsia Rudin fails with all his plans because he speaks cliché, forges plans but does not act effectively.

literature

Output used:

  • Rudin. Translated from the Russian by Herbert Wotte , pp. 5–148 in: Iwan Turgenjew: Rudin. An aristocratic nest . Afterword by Klaus Dornacher. 360 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1976 (3rd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev : Rudin, edition 1870
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 33, 19. Zvo
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 111, 1. Zvo
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 110, 5. Zvo
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 63, 8th Zvu
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 147, 16. Zvo
  7. ↑ Russian Rudin (film)
  8. ↑ Russian Воинов, Константин Наумович
  9. ↑ Russian Переладова, Светлана Семёновна
  10. ^ Rudin entry in the IMDb
  11. ↑ Russian Rudin (novel)
  12. ↑ Dornacher in the afterword of the edition used, p. 337, 13. Zvu - p. 343, 17. Zvo