From love (Chekhov)

Von der Liebe ( Russian О любви , O ljubwi) is a story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared in the August 1898 issue of the Moscow magazine Russkaya Mysl . The author wrote the text in the early summer of 1898 at his Melichowo country estate near Moscow. In 1917 the broadcast by Alexander Eliasberg came out in Weimar .

About love is the last of the internal narratives from the Little Trilogy .

The landowner Pawel Konstantinytsch Aljochin, around forty years old, tells a story from a bygone era; tells of his unhappy love for the married Anna Alexejewna.

Anton Chekhov

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Occasionally, Aljochin's work on his inherited estate in Sofjino is interrupted by trips to the county seat. He had been elected justice of the peace and in this capacity he works with Luganovich, the deputy president of the district court. Aljochin gets to know and love Luganovich's around 22-year-old wife Anna. The “beautiful, kind, intelligent and charming woman” has a six-month-old child. Aljochin cannot forget Anna at home in Sofjino. In the course of time, when he visits the city again, he will be seen with pleasure in Luganovich's house. In spite of constant work in Sofjino, the Luganovichs hand over presents to poor Aljochin. He reciprocates with gifts, consisting of poultry, butter and flowers. Alyochin cannot understand why Anna came across the much older Luganovich and not him.

Aljochin says: "... we did not confess our love, but rather shyly and jealously hid it." Years later, Anna already has a second child from her husband, the strange lovers split up forever. During the farewell, both Alyochin and Anna leave the strength they had had for years. He hugs and kisses the lover. Anna hugs her face against his chest. He confesses his love to her and realizes his mistake. Alekhine did not start from “the Most High”, but kept persuading herself that love for a married woman was a sin.

German-language editions

First edition

• Anton Chekhov: About love. Novellas. German by Alexander Eliasberg. 181 pages. Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1917 in the lovers library, vol. 42

Used edition

• Of love. German by Gerhard Dick . P. 365-375 in Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: The lady with the dog . Master tales. (also contains: The wife. Anna on the neck . White forehead . The murder . Ariadna. The house with the mezzanine . My life. The peasants . The Pechenege. At home. On the wagon. With friends. The man in the case . The Gooseberries . Jonytsch . A case from practice . Hearts . The new country house. On the business trip. At Christmas time. In the gorge . The bishop. The bride ). 612 pages. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 1967 (1st edition)

Web links

• The text
  • О любви (Чехов) (Russian)
  • online at litmir.info (Russian)
  • online at Lib.ru / Classic (Russian)
• Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 563 (Russian)
• Dieter Wunderlich: meeting

See also

• On March 8, 2004, the premiere of Sergei Soloviev 's film of the same name took place in Russia . However, the melodrama was shot after Chekhov's three other prose works.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Мелихово (усадьба)
2. ↑ Russian. Of love. About the narrative
3. ↑ Düwel in the follow-up to the edition used, pp. 594–595
4. ↑ Russian The Small Trilogy ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Russian State Library
5. ↑ Russian Софьино
6. ↑ Edition used, p. 372, 11. Zvu
7. ↑ Entry DNB
8. ↑ Russian О любви and entry in the IMDb