The Bear

[Deborah Hoffman]

Smirnov as I remember is kind of a boor - is it
possible Chekhov does this to demonstrate the
character's ignorance of how one would normally call a
manservant?  Or were servants called this way as well?

>>Sorry to disappoint you, but in
pre-1917->>revolutionary Russia, the
>>address form to a waiter (by a man) was "chelovek"
>
>Problem is, the play's hero is not at a restaurant.
He >is in the heroine's house, calling out to her
>manservant, and as Ms. Meyendorff has pointed out,
>translating "chelovek" as "waiter" in this case is
>incorrect.

Deborah Hoffman
Finance Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Kent State University
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