What I saw in a dream

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What I saw in a dream , also What I saw in a dream ( Russian Что я видел во сне , transcription: Tschto ja widel wo sne , transliteration: Čto ja videl vo sne ) is a short story by Lev Tolstoy that was written at the end of 1906 and 1911 appeared posthumously.

Tolstoy takes up his "former favorite idea of ​​Christian conversion" - overcoming sin through reconciliation .

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The 60-year-old Prince of Petersburg, Mikhail Ivanovich Sch. travels to the province to see his 50-year-old brother, the aristocratic marshal Prince Pyotr Ivanovich. Prince Mikhail's favorite daughter Lisa has recently been living there as Mrs. Vera Ivanovna Selivestrowa with her illegitimate toddler.

Years ago, as a very young marriageable girl, beautiful Lisa had turned down several brilliant games, to the chagrin of her father. When the girl was no longer very young, the father had failed to bring about a proper marriage. Lisa was eventually sent to live with an aunt in Finland . There she had let herself be made pregnant by a handsome blond Swede . It turned out the father-to-be was impoverished, married, and unwilling to divorce.

Prince Mikhail - reluctant grandfather who has an illegitimate son with a French woman, has absolutely no understanding for his daughter's misstep. Prince Mikhail wants to get rid of the embarrassment. He gives brother Pyotr a sum of money. The aristocratic marshal is supposed to pay his niece Lisa a small monthly sum to survive.

The Prince from Petersburg did the math without his sister-in-law Aline. This wife of brother Pyotr had always appeared to Michael as a fool, but the Petersburg brother-in-law is doing the right thing on Aline's cautious insistence. Prince Mikhail seeks out his daughter Lisa before the train leaves for Petersburg and makes up with her.

German-language editions

  • What I saw in a dream. German by Arthur Luther . P. 248–264 in: Gisela Drohla (Ed.): Leo N. Tolstoj. All the stories. Eighth volume. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2nd edition of the edition in eight volumes 1982)
  • What I saw in a dream. Translated from the Russian by Hermann Asemissen . S. 344–359 in: Eberhard Dieckmann (Ed.) Lew Tolstoi. Haji Murat. Late stories (contains: Hajji Murat. After the ball. The fake coupon. Alyosha the pot. What for? The divine and the human. What I saw in dreams. Father Vasily. Power of the child. The monk-priest Iliodor. Who are the murderers? Conversation with a stranger. The stranger and the farmer. Songs in the village. Three days in the country. Children's wisdom. Grateful soil. Chodynka. Unwanted. Post-legacy records of the monk Fyodor Kuzmich. All the same. There are no guilty parties in the world ). 623 pages, vol. 13 by Eberhard Dieckmann (ed.), Gerhard Dudek (ed.): Lew Tolstoi. Collected works in twenty volumes . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1986 (edition used)
  • The stories. Vol. 2. Late stories. 1886–1910 (contains: The canvas knife . The death of Ivan Ilyich . The Kreutz sonata . The devil. Master and servant . Father Sergei. After the ball . Haji-Murad . The fake coupon. Aljosha the pot . Kornej Wasiljew. The strawberries. For what? The divine and the human. What I saw in a dream. On the Chodynka field ). Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf 2001. 813 pages, ISBN 978-3-538-06906-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieckmann in the appendix to the edition used, p. 603, below
  2. ↑ Dieckmann in the appendix of the edition used, p. 603, 4th Zvu