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Included: "Carelessness," "Broke," "Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks," "The Family Charge," and "The Bachelor." Translated by M.S. Mandell. Introduction by William Lyon Phelps.
The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life. Readers will find complete, exemplary translations of Turgenev's finest novels, Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, and Fathers and Sons, along with the lapidary novella First Love. The volume also includes selections from Sportsman's Sketches, seven of Turgenev's most compelling short stories, and fifteen prose poems. It also contains samples of the author's nonfiction drawn from autobiographical sketches, memoirs, public speeches, plus the influential essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and correspondence with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.
"Fathers and Sons" by means of Ivan S. Turgenev is a seminal Russian novel that explores the generational conflict between fathers and their innovative sons in the mid-nineteenth century. Set against the backdrop of social and political upheaval in Russia, Turgenev presents a poignant and undying remark at the converting landscape of ideology and familial relationships. The tale follows the protagonist, Arkady Kirsanov, and his pal, Yevgeny Bazarov, as they go back home from college to Arkady's family property. The arrival of Bazarov, a staunch nihilist and advise of medical materialism, disrupts the traditional values and ideals of the older era, especially Arkady's father, Nikolai. The ide...
Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first to achieve real fame outside of his own country. He spent most of his adult life in Western Europe and started to write letters, not just to keep his friends informed of his progress, but 'in order to receive replies'. An entertaining and accomplished correspondent, he rarely objected to publication of his letters, which were written with that possibility in mind. This selection of full letters spans more than fifty years, from 1831 until just before Turgenev's death in September 1883. Turgenev enjoyed conversations by post, debating social and political questions, and issues in literature, art and music. Among his corresponde...
Fathers and Sons By Ivan S. Turgenev Translated from the Russian by C.J. Hogarth Fathers and Sons, also translated more literally as Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, and vies with A Nest of Gentlefolk for the repute of being his best novel. Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of Russia. His father, Nikolai, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called Maryino, but Nikolai's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new philosophy called "nihilism" which the young men advocate. Nikolai, initially delighted to have his son return ...
Turgenev's novel about conflicting ideas, social classes and generations questions human nature and man's place in the universe. This is one in a series offering a critical analysis of Russian texts and surveying the different interpretations that have been suggested.
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