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From Chekhov's story Pripadok ("A Nervous Breakdown," 1888):
But the face [of a flunkey in a brothel] was really interesting: a big forehead, gray eyes, a little flattened nose, thin compressed lips, and a blankly stupid and at the same time insolent expression like that of a young harrier overtaking a hare. Vasilyev thought it would be nice to touch this man's hair, to see whether it was soft or coarse. It must be coarse like a dog's.
One wonders if this dog-faced flunkey isn't red-haired, like Red Vaska,* the bouncer in a brothel in a story by Chekhov's friend Gorky?
Из публичного в сумасшедший дом (from the brothel to a mad house):
One of the simulators in the mad house in Ilf & Petrov's "The Golden Calf" is человек-собака (the man-dog). Another (a moustached male decently dressed) affirms that he is a naked woman. The book-keeper Berlaga's mania is being a viceroy of India.
Another character in "The Golden Calf" uses the phrase k svin'yam sobach'im ("to the canine swines") and mentions Anton Pavlovich, the Prince of Wuertemberg. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died in Badenweiler (a spa in Baden-Wuertemberg).
*note that Vaska is a form of Vasiliy and the surname Vasilyev (of Chekhov's hero) comes from Vasiliy
Alexey Sklyarenko
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But the face [of a flunkey in a brothel] was really interesting: a big forehead, gray eyes, a little flattened nose, thin compressed lips, and a blankly stupid and at the same time insolent expression like that of a young harrier overtaking a hare. Vasilyev thought it would be nice to touch this man's hair, to see whether it was soft or coarse. It must be coarse like a dog's.
One wonders if this dog-faced flunkey isn't red-haired, like Red Vaska,* the bouncer in a brothel in a story by Chekhov's friend Gorky?
Из публичного в сумасшедший дом (from the brothel to a mad house):
One of the simulators in the mad house in Ilf & Petrov's "The Golden Calf" is человек-собака (the man-dog). Another (a moustached male decently dressed) affirms that he is a naked woman. The book-keeper Berlaga's mania is being a viceroy of India.
Another character in "The Golden Calf" uses the phrase k svin'yam sobach'im ("to the canine swines") and mentions Anton Pavlovich, the Prince of Wuertemberg. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died in Badenweiler (a spa in Baden-Wuertemberg).
*note that Vaska is a form of Vasiliy and the surname Vasilyev (of Chekhov's hero) comes from Vasiliy
Alexey Sklyarenko
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