Four days (Garschin)

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Garschin in the war year 1877

Vier Tage ( Russian Четыре дня , Tschetyre dnja ) is a short story by the Russian writer Vsevolod Garschin , which appeared in the October issue of the Otetschestwennye Sapiski in Saint Petersburg in 1877 .

In this anti-war text, Ivanov, who was initially blinded by an idea, had to come to terms with his disability after the battle sobered.

History of origin

The student Garschin took part in the Russo-Ottoman War as a volunteer in the 138th Bolkhovsk Infantry Regiment . In this his first text, written in 1877, Garschin dealt with the fate of Vasily Arsenyev, a soldier from his regiment, who was seriously wounded in the fight in the legs.

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The young volunteer Ivanov, a common man, describes a Russian assault on the Ottomans from his perspective. At home in Russia , the mother and his bride Masha cried when they parted. Ivanov went to Kishinev and went to war from there via Romania to Bulgaria . On the battlefield in Rustschuk , Ivanov had struck a huge, fat Fellach with a bayonet in the heart. Now the dead Egyptian is rotting in the Bulgarian heat. Ivanov, whose legs failed during the battle, cannot move away from the dead man. At least the Egyptian's water-filled canteen ensures Ivanov's survival. Finally, on the fourth day after the battle, Ivanov was found by Private Yakovlev.

The surgeon, a well-known professor from Saint Petersburg, amputated Ivanov's leg in the divisional hospital .

reception

The appearance of the new author Garschin in 1877 was celebrated by Korolenko as that of an unknown shining star in the Russian prose sky.

Turgenev saw Garschin succeeding Dostoevsky and Tolstoy .

1910: The writer Pyotr Jakubowitsch writes that the four days of torture of the seriously wounded man can be relived.

1955: For the Soviet critic Grigori Bjaly, the drama of the two war victims is worth looking at. The Fellache would have been driven to war by the Ottomans against his will and knew nothing about the Bulgarians or the Russians . The volunteer Ivanov actually didn't want to kill.

2014: Alexander Melichow looks at the strangely objective narrative gesture with favor.

German-language editions

Used edition

  • Four days. Transferred and with afterword by Valerian Tornius . P. 7–22 in Vsevolod M. Garschin: The stories. 464 pages. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1956 ( Dieterich Collection , Vol. 177)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Болховский 138-й пехотный полк
  2. ↑ Russian Василий Арсеньев
  3. ↑ Russian Четыре дня - history of origins and Tornius in the afterword of the edition used, p. 448, 2. Zvo
  4. ↑ Russian Ryadovoi - simple soldier
  5. ↑ Russian Якубович, Пётр Филиппович
  6. ↑ Russian Бялый, Григорий Абрамович
  7. ↑ Russian Мелихов, Александр Мотелевич
  8. ↑ Russian Четыре дня - reviews, analysis

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