Trifon (Chekhov)
Trifon ( Russian Трифон ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on March 31, 1884 in No. 13 of the St. Petersburg humorous weekly Oskolki . The text was translated into Serbo-Croatian during the author's lifetime.
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At the end of March in the Russian province: the elderly landowner Grigori Semjonowitsch Stscheglow, plagued by back pain, wakes up in the middle of the night. His wife Nastia's bed right next to him is empty. Stscheglow is getting dressed. It's three o'clock. He steps outside and hears the young woman talking to his groom Trifon in the gazebo. The servant wants to convince Nastja between kissing and caressing, good and money don't make you happy. The desperate must agree with her loved one. She would prefer to run away from the old man, run as far away as possible, but she has to support her father and brother with Stscheglow's money.
Stscheglow would like to have the servant beaten up in the horse stable. Whatever punishment the landlord comes up with - it conflicts with some paragraph of the penal code.
The next night, Stscheglow gets up again at exactly three o'clock and sneaks up. When Trifon speaks ill of him again in front of Nastja, he intervenes. Trifon takes the threat of punishment calmly. Stscheglow turns around. He wants to bribe the servant with money so that he can leave Nastja. Trifon doesn't go along with it: “Out of the question”, the subordinate decides and trudges into the servants' room.
German-language editions
Used edition
- Gerhard Dick (ed.), Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: Collected works in individual volumes : Trifon. P. 192–196 in: Gerhard Dick (Ed.): Anton Chekhov: From rain to 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
- Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 185 (Russian)
- Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)
annotation
- ↑ The serfdom was abolished in Russia in late winter. 1861 Before 1861, corporal punishment against corporal farmers was usually carried out in the manor's stables.