Business Cards
Business ( Russian Визитные карточки , Wisitnyje kartotschki ) is a short story by Russian Nobel laureate for literature Ivan Bunin , which was completed on October 5, 1940 and 1943 in the anthology Dark Avenues in New York appeared. A married woman breaks out of an unsatisfactory marriage.
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Early autumn on the Volga : A writer who is only around thirty years old but is already renowned can afford a first-class ticket on the steamer. While promenading on deck, the tall, sturdy writer gets to know a pretty, slim, young woman traveling alone - apparently from the third grade. He invites the apparently less well-off to breakfast. It turns out in the first exploratory conversation that the young woman with the thin calves has stood by her recently widowed sister in Svyashsk and is driving home to her boring husband, an officer in the district .
The young writer regrets his early marriage in further chatter. After a few vodkas, the woman thaws out and encourages the generous counterpart to go on a little adventure for which it is far from too late. Said and done. On the way to the cabin together, she talks about the poverty in her youth. As a student at the Lyceum, she dreamed of wealth; wanted so much to have business cards printed. He kisses her on the cheek. She offers him her mouth. She undresses in the cabin. When she stands naked in front of him and is shivering, he is pleased to note the contrast between the slim body and the well-built thighs. He puts it down. She awaits him relaxed.
When the woman disembarked at her port of destination towards the evening of the same day, he kisses her hand.
German-language editions
- Used edition
- Business Cards. German by Erich Ahrndt . P. 367–374 in: Karlheinz Kasper (Ed.): Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953 . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985
Web links
- The text
- Seventh text in part 2: online 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)