Wadim (Lermontow)
Vadim ( Russian Вадим ) is the first novel by the Russian poet Michail Lermontow . The posthumous fragment from the 1830s appeared in Westnik Jewropy in 1873 .
overview
After Marga Erb Lermontov has the text in the years 1833-1834 - so at nineteen - written and "Tales from the time of Pugatschowaufstands " (1773-1775), giving it "on the estate of grandmother in Tarchany in Penza province " to the ears have come used.
Lermontov lets his villain, the cruel Russian landlord Boris Petrovich Palitsyn, who is around fifty years old, flee from the fatal anger of his serf peasants into the inaccessible boggy forests, or more precisely, into the Devil's Cave. This shelter in the catchment area of the Sura , a right tributary of the Volga , near Penza , was dug by the subjects of "Empress Jelisaveta Petrovna " there in the middle of the 18th century, when they first tried to avoid the attacking " Tatars and Crimean inhabitants and later" the " Kyrgyz and Bashkirs " had to hide. The Devil's Cave is one of those refuges for the Russians from the " Nizhegorod , Simbirsk , Penza and Saratov Governments".
action
Around 1774 near the village of Palitsyno on the banks of the Sura: The 28-year-old lame, hunchbacked beggar Vadim hires out as a groom to the nobleman Boris Petrovich Palitsyn after the service in the monastery. In the Palitsyns house, Vadim confronts 17-year-old Olga. The beautiful young girl has been the foster child of the landlady Natalja Sergewna since she was three and increasingly has to fend off the landlord's approaches. Wadim puts Olga in the picture. Both are siblings and orphans. Palitsyn has taken the parental property and the noble parents on the conscience. Wadim - who grew up in a monastery, fled from there and became a beggar - wants revenge. Shortly before his death, his father had suggested retribution.
Yuri Borisovich, the spoiled son of the house, a kind, sensible young man, is returning home for three months. He serves in the Guard in Saint Petersburg and raves about the great Catherine . The virgin Olga falls in love with Juri, who is experienced in love affairs.
Wadim has to pass out the sister's love for one of his mortal enemies and foretells her lover's imminent death.
After the service, Natalja Sergewna is killed by the angry crowd on the stairs of the monastery for a really trivial reason. The landlady had pushed aside an eleven-year-old who was in her way. The angry crowd mutilates the corpse of their mistress.
Yuri, armed but not in the vicinity of his mother at this fateful hour and in view of the overwhelming odds in a losing position, urges his father to flee. The elderly cavalier Boris Petrovich Palitsyn had recently beaten a servant half to death and is now stepping after a soldier's wife. The latter hides it in their grain kiln. The kiln is too unsafe for the landlord. With the help of the simple-minded Petrucha, the landlord changes his hiding place; hides in the devil's cave.
The servant Fedosej, Olga's escape helper, is mistakenly mistaken for Yuri by Vadim and murdered. Juri manages to escape with Olga. By chance they meet the starving father in the devil's cave. Vadim brings a group of Cossacks, led by Sergeant Orlenko, to the soldier's wife and thus on the trail of the three noble fugitives.
shape
The first-person narrator, behind whom Lermontow stands, sucks the reader and is almost omniscient. Lermontov has a remarkable gift. He rebuilds nature with the forest around the Tarchany estate, which was almost impenetrable at the time, as a homely backdrop at the location of the action, the village of Palitsyno, in front of the reader's eye.
Thanks to the last, i.e. the 24th chapter, the fragment makes a closed impression. The good triumphs over the bad. The soldier's wife and her son, the idiot Petrucha, are tortured in vain by the Cossacks Pugachevs on their farm. The two martyred did not reveal to their tormentors the hiding place of the Palitsyns - the devil's cave.
In addition to such black and white painting, the first-person narrator Lermontov thinks about the causes of the Pugachev uprising and gives descriptions of the situation. Two examples of this. Both examples prepare narrative for the bad end of the landlady Natalja Sergewna, so to speak. First, when the landlord Boris Petrovich Palitsyn was prophesied that the peasant uprising was approaching, Lermontov comments on Palitsyn's disbelief: “This carelessness plunged many of our ancestors into ruin; they could not imagine that the people would dare to demand their blood: they had become so accustomed to Russian obedience and loyalty! "And secondly, on the death of the landlady herself, Lermontov writes" ... what the people are: a stone stuck halfway up the mountain, which can be moved from its place by the strength of a child and nevertheless crushes everything that stands in its way in its involuntary striving ... "
Adaptations
- 1910: Vadim - Russian silent film (duration: 14 min, length 400 m) by Pyotr Ivanovich Tschardynin with N. Speransky in the title role, Alexandra Goncharova as Olga, Tschardynin as Boris Petrovich Palitsyn, Andrei Gromov as Yuri and Pavel Biryukov as servant Fedosej. Camera: Wladimir Siwersen.
- 2014: Dramaturgisches Theater Penza: Wadim
reception
- On the one hand, Marga Erb sees Wadim in the work of the young author merely as an “abstract carrier of ideas”, but on the other hand she at least observes the “approach to a character design that is more in keeping with prose and draws from real life”.
Text output
- Mikhail Lermontov: Vadim. Novel fragment. Translated from Russian and appended by Marga Erb . 163 pages. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1985 (used edition)
- Wadim. Novel fragment. German by Marga Erb. P. 7–147 in: Michail Lermontow: Prosa und Dramatik. 584 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-352-00095-6
Remarks
- ↑ Tarchany is located 17 kilometers east of Belinski near today's village of Lermontowo.
- ↑ For the young aristocrat Lermontow, the lovers Juri Borissowitsch and Olga represent the good. The vengeful beggar Wadim and the revolters, on the other hand, represent evil.
Web links
- Wikisource : Вадим_ (Лермонтов) (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Vadim (Lermontow)
- ↑ Marga Erb in the follow-up to the edition used, p. 154, 9. Zvo and p. 156, 4. Zvo
- ↑ Russian Tarchany
- ↑ Russian Governorate of Simbirsk
- ↑ Edition used, p. 89 (Chapter 18)
- ↑ Edition used, p. 58, 17. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, pp. 70, 19. Zvo
- ↑ Russian Вадим (фильм, 1910)
- ↑ Russian Чардынин, Пётр Иванович
- ↑ Russian Гончарова, Александра Васильевна
- ↑ Russian Громов, Андрей Антонович
- ↑ Russian Бирюков, Павел
- ↑ Russian Сиверсен, Владимир Фёдорович
- ^ Marga Erb in the follow-up to the edition used, p. 156, 8th Zvu