Temir-Aksak-Khan
Temir-Aksak-Khan ( Russian Темир-Аксак-Хан ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Iwan Bunin , which was written in Paris in 1921 and published in 1922 in issue 1 of the Wereteno almanac in Berlin .
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The owner of the cafe in a village in the Crimea , a well-fed Tatar with a pretty face, has few guests - a hajji and a couple passing through. The beautiful young woman in the company of obese man with a coat and bowler hat listening devotedly the song of a beggar, which begins there with "Aaaa, Temir-Aksak Khan The message of the song is": Rich disintegrate as soon as the ruler died.
The lady understands Tatar . When the beggar celebrated his song - more of an unrestrained, deeply sad howl - she rewards the singer with a gold ruble .
reception
In 1985 Kasper wrote that the short story expresses the hopelessness of the emigrant Iwan Bunin. From Bunin's diary entries for the years 1921 and 1922 there was doubt as to whether it would be possible to continue writing in France , far from the lost Russian homeland.
German-language editions
- Used edition
- Temir-Aksak-Khan. German by Ilse Tschörtner . P. 9–13 in: Karlheinz Kasper (Ed.): Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953 . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985
Web links
- The text
- Notice of first publication in the Labor der Fantastik (Russian)
- Entry in WorldCat
Historical counterparts
- ↑ The Crimea was one of the last bastions of the whites .
- ↑ Tsar Nicholas II was murdered on the night of July 18, 1918 .