Tanja (Ivan Bunin)
Tanja ( Russian Таня ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Iwan Bunin , which was completed on October 22, 1940 and was published in 1943 in the anthology Dunkle Alleen in New York . A trusting 17-year-old half-orphan, daughter of a dissolute beggar, is seduced and abandoned.
November 1916 to February 1917 in Russia : On the return trip from the Crimea to Moscow , Pyotr Nikolajitsch, called Petrusha, stops at his relative, the landowner Kasakowa, for two weeks at the beginning of November. At night his gaze falls through the ajar door of the maid's room on the beautiful nanny Tanja. He abuses the sleeper. When he penetrates her, she sighs in her sleep. Then she accepts what has been done to her. Tanja is afraid of the old servant when Petruscha announces that he will visit her again in bed the following night. Petrusha holds back on it.
A few days later, the landowner Kasakowa asked Petrusha to pick up Tanya from the train station. Tanja feels flattered and throws herself on her seductor's neck. Bunin writes that Tanja gave Petruscha both her body and her soul. Petruscha sneaks into bed with her and, as soon as he asks in the future, she comes to him secretly in the deep night that follows and stays until morning.
Petrusha postpones the departure several times. When he finally says goodbye, she wants to be taken. She does not understand his explanation that he wanders around in Russia, usually lives in hotels and will never marry. He promises his next visit at Christmas and is leaving. Not until February does he make his next and last visit to Tanja.
German-language editions
- Used edition
- Tanja. German by Erich Ahrndt . S. 375–396 in: Karlheinz Kasper (Ed.): Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953 . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985
Web links
- The text
- online (ninth text in part 2) at Lib.ru (Russian)
- online at bunin.niv.ru (Russian)
- online in the Komarow library (Russian)
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)