| 单词 | Turgenev |
| 例句 | The writer Ivan Turgenev described him as an intelligent, queer, and sickly creature. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It is for these reasons that Ivan Turgenev, the artist and the man, remains a role model in times like these. Ivan Turgenev by Hisham Matar 2011-03-05T00:07:40Z Now he's working with director Jonathan Kent on an Irish-set adaptation of Turgenev's A Month in the Country. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z Yes, “A Month in the Country,” Turgenev’s unwieldy comedy of disappointed love from the mid-19th century, has shrunk in duration to a long weekend. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z His adaptation of Turgenev’s “Month” not only telescopes time. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Plenty of towering literary figures — among them Balzac, Turgenev, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley — have taken inspiration from King Lear. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He said that when he was 74, he started re-reading his favorite novels by authors Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others, and then re-read his own novels. Author Philip Roth says he is done with writing 2012-11-09T23:15:30Z If we are French, we are expected to like cheese, wine and Molière, even if we prefer curry, scotch and Turgenev. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z Edward’s wife, Constance, is still rightly honored as the pioneering translator of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This book, which it is claimed influenced Tsar Alexander II's decision to emancipate the serfs in 1861, comprises vignettes of peasant life as observed by a landowning hunter much like Turgenev. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z The couple worked together earlier this year in an off-Broadway production of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Peter Dinklage: ‘Tyrion has a sense of humour'’ 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Ashton adapted “A Month in the Country” from Turgenev’s five-act play of the same name. ‘A Month in the Country,’ as Experienced at Age 20 2013-07-24T15:59:17Z I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Hemingway the Museumgoer at the Met 2011-09-15T22:52:42Z He was also devoted to his Russian-born maternal grandfather, who read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov in the back of his candy store. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z This is more like a Turgenev novel than a Batman movie, but is familiar turf for Batman comics. DC's film "Batman: Under the Red Hood" 2010-08-03T17:01:00Z This analysis of the art of writing, conducted through a close analysis of seven classic Russian short stories — by Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol — emerges from a longtime course Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z A half-century in theater brought him major roles in plays by Albee, Strindberg, Turgenev and Noel Coward, and a couple of Tony Awards for his mantel. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z Constance Garnett, whose translations introduced most of the great 19th-century Russians to English readers, considered Turgenev to be the most difficult of them to translate "because his style is the most beautiful". A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Turgenev is a poet of disappointment, whose rapturous descriptions of youth are always filtered through an older consciousness aware that it "melts away like wax in the sun". A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z The acclaimed writer pairs these essays with short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol to offer a master class in the mechanics of fiction. New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George Saunders 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z My stepfather spent much of my and my sister’s teenage years reading Turgenev and smoking roll-ups in the back yard: this earned him a sort of gradual, grudging respect from us. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Wilson writes: "Turgenev is a master of language, he is interested in words in a way that the other great 19th-century Russian novelists – with the exception of Gogol – are not." A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pasternak, Chekhov, check them all off; Groskop is just sorry there’s only one woman, the sublime Anna Akhmatova, on her list. Review | The surprising — and surprisingly funny — lessons one woman learned from Russian literature 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In Fathers and Sons, one of the great novels of the 19th century, Turgenev writes of a character's "quiet attentiveness to the broad wave of life constantly flowing in and around us". A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Case in point: the Culture Project’s unsteady production of “About Love,” which awkwardly wrestles “First Love,” a novella by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, to the stage of the Sheen Center. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Instead he regularly urged learning from the great Russians that Constance was busily translating, especially the more polished and Europeanized Turgenev. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z She spent the next several years bouncing between jobs, scraping by first as a streetcar conductor and cook who read the Russians — Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov — in her free time. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 In a related effort, Turgenev and Pauline acted as “go-betweens, connecting people in the European music world” with composers in Russia. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z There are very few genius-clusters in literary history like the murderer’s row of great 19th century Russian writers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Lermontov, Chekhov. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z Yet for all the emotional truth in these characters, from Turgenev and Ostrovsky to Chekhov, the sentence for those who stray is harsh. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Friel renders Turgenev's delicate, naturalistic comedy in strong primary colours, which accords with Kent's philosophy – shown by a previous production of Chekhov's Ivanov – of playing the revered Russians in uninhibitedly emotional style. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z Seven essays on stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol; adapted from a class Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Turgenev and Pauline first met at a party in St. Petersburg in 1843, when he was 25 and she 22. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Except for Pauline herself, Turgenev emerges as the outstanding exemplar of this admirable cosmopolitanism. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Franz Liszt taught her piano, and Ivan Turgenev adored her. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Ignoring his business of soap manufacturing, he spends his days learning German and his nights reading books — especially the Russians, and especially Turgenev. A Once-Forgotten Novel Unites Turkish Readers in Troubled Times 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The only serious fault of “Month” is that its ending sentimentalizes the bittersweet Turgenev comedy on which it is based. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z The new book emerges from his longtime course on the 19th-century Russian short story — on Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z When Mr. Bates was in New York in 2002, basking in ecstatic reviews for his performance in Turgenev’s “Fortune’s Fool” on Broadway, he crossed paths with Mr. Leader at a restaurant. ‘Sins of a Father’ Resuscitates a 1991 Film Starring Alan Bates 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z This avowal complicates Turgenev’s cosmopolitan profile because, as Figes repeatedly notes, German identity in these years was increasingly and explicitly bound up with a fierce nationalist agenda. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Impressively, Fiennes mastered Russian dialogue for this intelligent adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s play A Month in the Country. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Russians are another big influence, especially Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z Above all, even though he loved his native Russia, Turgenev refused to concede “that the calls of any country should come before those of humanity.” Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z First, there was “Three Days in the Country,” Patrick Marber’s variation on Turgenev’s best-known play at the National, which presented love as an incurable disease for which even palliative care is useless. London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He’s celebrated as a literary heir to giants like Turgenev, Gogol and Nabokov, but at times, he’s questioned the value of literature, dismissing novels as “just paper with typographic signs.” He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Turgenev thus preceded Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy as “the best-known Russian writer in the West,” though he championed both of them in France. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Turgenev’s request for Pauline’s picture quickly leads to several pages about the evolution of photography. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z But I also felt an uneasy claustrophobia watching Turgenev’s characters on the vast stage of the Lyttleton Theater at the National, as they sensed the confining limitations of their time, place and own personalities. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Gustav Flaubert wrote in a letter to Turgenev, responding to the love object in the novella. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z I read Turgenev, two of the greatest short stories ever written, ‘First Love’ and ‘The Torrents of Spring.’ Struggle Over, Philip Roth Reflects on Putting Down His Pen 2012-11-18T03:52:41Z Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev's story The Song of Triumphant Love is a tale of exotic wonders, of forbidden passion, and a strange love-song more powerful than murder. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z Though Pauline was a fan — informing Turgenev, who was not, “I am a Wagnerian to my fingertips, my poor friend!” How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Katherine Mansfield, Stefan Zweig, William Trevor, Marianne Moore, Ivan Turgenev and others — in their private letters and public works, she finds solace, questions without answers, answers without questions. Yiyun Li’s brave look at depression and the consoling power of literature 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Throughout his story Turgenev, the committed realist, repeatedly balances the unreal, the ghostly, with the simply human, fantastical terror with everyday pathos and empathy. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Admittedly, the verbal blunderings of a comic German seem a touch crude, and at times you feel Turgenev is being treated as the ancestor of Feydeau rather than Chekhov. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z Yiyun Li speaks of how Turgenev brought her “much closer to the real me than all the requirements in my culture to be happy.” What book changed your life? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z After their arrival in the United States they banned English from their household and fed the newly renamed Gary a diet of Chekhov, Turgenev and Tolstoy in the original Russian. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z They were the ones who began modern Russian literature itself in this period, producing great Russian novelists like Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the nation, for God’s sake, that gave birth to Gogol and Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev and Baryshnikov and Stravinsky and Makarova. Perspective | They bombed a theater in Ukraine. Somewhere, Chekhov is weeping. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Gogol are included in the book, then treated to detailed discussion. Thrilling little machines: George Saunders analyzes Russian short fiction 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z While most such guides offer only excerpts from the good writing you’re shooting for, Saunders includes the full text of seven short stories by four Russian authors: Turgenev, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Gogol. Review: If anyone can teach you writing, maybe George Saunders can? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Turgenev’s 1862 classic features two fathers who delight in their college-age sons, but struggle with the philosophical nihilism that consumes each young man. Dads, kids and life’s curve balls: Here are 6 books to consider for Father’s Day 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z One of them, she wrote, “in her high-necked black dress, with her hair swept up,” looked “like a duchess in a Turgenev novel.” Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Ivan Turgenev, for one, based the character of Bazarov in “Fathers and Sons” on his example. The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Once he did, he began to discover the great novels — he especially liked Turgenev and the other Russians — but also found they were missing something. Ernest J. Gaines, Novelist of ‘Miss Jane Pittman,’ Dies at 86 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z For instance, he admires Turgenev’s “The Singers,” despite its flaws: needless exposition, clunky structure, an obvious turn. Review: If anyone can teach you writing, maybe George Saunders can? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “He never idealized anything and described the reality that he saw,” conceded Elena Levina, the director of the Turgenev family estate, which reopened to the public in January after lavish renovation work. Turgenev Dissed Russia but Is Still Lionized as Literary Star by Touchy Kremlin 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Turgenev’s tale of unrequited love among aristocrats on a country estate is said to have inspired Chekhov to write plays and uncannily prefigures his work in both tone and action. The week ahead in SoCal theater, July 29-Aug. 5: 'Titus Andronicus' at Griffith Park and more 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Turgenev’s tale of unrequited love among aristocrats on a country estate is said to have inspired Chekhov to write plays, and uncannily prefigures his work in both tone and action. The week ahead in SoCal theater, July 22-29: 'Hershey Felder: Beethoven' and more 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s play “A Month in the Country,” first published in 1855, which, legend has it, inspired Chekhov to write for the stage. Review: Antaeus Theatre's 'Three Days in the Country' is a witty, timely update of Turgenev 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Three Days in the Country A handsome new tutor shakes up an eccentric household in the West Coast premiere of Patrick Marber’s romantic comedy based on the Turgenev classic “A Month in the Country.” The week ahead in SoCal theater, July 8-15: 'Arrival & Departure,' 'Million Dollar Quartet' and more 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z “Russian people are lazy and slow, and not accustomed to thinking independently, nor acting consistently,” Turgenev wrote in an 1857 letter to a conservative Russian countess. Turgenev Dissed Russia but Is Still Lionized as Literary Star by Touchy Kremlin 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z They read a Turgenev story, “A Living Relic,” about a young peasant woman confined to a one-room cabin, bedridden after being stricken with an illness. Tolstoy behind bars: Why U-Va. students are reading Russian literature in a prison 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The Russian import “Two Women” is not a remake of the 1961 Sophia Loren classic but rather a filmed adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play “A Month In the Country.” Ralph Fiennes speaks Russian in 'Two Women,' a stuffy Turgenev adaptation 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z She found a refuge in the public library, reading Austen and the Brontës, Turgenev and Shelley. The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z A former bakery for the local grand manor, “it became a house of flowers that evoked Turgenev,” she recalls. Renzo Mongiardino, the Architect of Illusion 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z His ministry financed the rebuilding of Turgenev’s family estate and in November opened a new museum in central Moscow, housed in the former home of the writer’s mother, whom Turgenev loathed, feared and loved dearly. Turgenev Dissed Russia but Is Still Lionized as Literary Star by Touchy Kremlin 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The last time I read War and Peace I sought to fill the void it left behind with another book from the same era and the same culture, Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches. Karl Ove Knausgaard: the shame of writing about myself 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Speaking of: Here’s a quote from “First Love,” by Turgenev. Dear Colin Cowherd: Here’s how John Wall is different from Johnny Manziel 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z It dates back to the 1917 revolution and the communist era, or even further, to the days of Tolstoy, Turgenev and the tsars. Putin's disturbing message for the west: your rules don't apply 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He was also credited with adaptations of classics by Chekov, Ibsen and Turgenev, among others. Brian Friel, Irish playwright who wrote Dancing at Lughnasa, dies aged 86 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Increasingly wedded to pugnacious nationalism, it spurns the liberal values espoused by Turgenev but still reveres him as part of the family. Turgenev Dissed Russia but Is Still Lionized as Literary Star by Touchy Kremlin 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It was as if Turgenev’s prose in some way tore through the plastic of the novel’s packaging, allowing that world to emerge in all its colour, populated by its own idiosyncratic characters. Karl Ove Knausgaard: the shame of writing about myself 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z And in the Lyttelton there's a new version of Turgenev's 1870s Russian classic usually known as A Month in the Country but now re-titled Three Days in the Country. Patrick Marber: Three for one at the National Theatre - BBC News 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z As a psychologist he stands midway between Stendhal and Turgenev. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He made the valued acquaintance of Ivan Turgenev, and through him of the group which surrounded Gustave Flaubert—Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Zola and others. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z I remember with gratitude an article of his which I read when I was even more ignorant than I am now, on the modern successors to the group of Titans, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z How that feeling of authenticity, or world-nearness, arises, I don’t know, but it is certainly rare and has nothing to do with Turgenev’s characters actually having existed, as opposed to Tolstoy’s, who did not. Karl Ove Knausgaard: the shame of writing about myself 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z I ask him if there's a line from The Red Lion back to Turgenev - a profoundly sad story which has gorgeously comic moments too. Patrick Marber: Three for one at the National Theatre - BBC News 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z She had style, serene, flowing, also tepid and fatuous, the style detested by Charles Baudelaire, and admired by Turgenev and Renan and Lamennais. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But it was both strange and sweet to see poor Turgenev acting charades of the most extravagant description, dressed out in old shawls and masks, going on all fours etc. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Imagine Turgenev or Flaubert scribbling anything similar to the interpolations quoted above! Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I may even visit the villages of Russia and see what the last 160 years have done to reality there since Turgenev tramped around with his rifle. Karl Ove Knausgaard: the shame of writing about myself 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z You mention among professional writers Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, and I would add Lermontov and others; all of them were bachelors without families, and that is a very different matter. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z Are there not as many charming men and women perambulating the rind of the planet as there were in the days when Jane Austen, or Howells, or Turgenev wrote? Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Turgenev is worth the whole heap of them, and yet he himself swallows them down in a manner that excites my extreme wonder. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z He belongs not only to the "feel" school of novelists, with Zola, but to the "thought" school, with Turgenev. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z It was Turgenev who introduced him to Flaubert, from whom he passed to Guy de Maupassant, then an athlete of four-and-twenty, and still scintillating in that blaze of juvenile virility which always fascinated Henry James. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z His articles on Tolstoy and Turgenev appeared in book form under the title, Critical Articles on I. S. Turgenev and L. N. Tolstoy, second edition, 1887. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z It was Turgenev, in an essay on Hamlet, who declared that the Russian character is composed of Hamlet-like traits. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Early in 1884 he spent some weeks in Paris, where the death of Turgenev had made a gap that he greatly felt. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Turgenev used to write his stories originally at great length, and then reduce them to a small fraction of their original bulk, before offering them to the public. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z He has been followed by Turgenev, who left us some prose poems which he called Senilia. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Among my papers I have a copy of I. S. Turgenev's letter to Edmond About, in which Turgenev gives the highest praise to War and Peace. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z Little cause for astonishment that Sanine at its appearance provoked as much controversy, as much admiration and hatred as did Fathers and Sons of Turgenev. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It was Turgenev who furnished him this information. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z He is perhaps puzzling to the practical Philistine Anglo-Saxon: but not if one has read Turgenev, Dostoievsky, or Gorky. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Tennyson, like Turgenev, enjoyed during his lifetime not only the popularity of the masses, but the appreciation of all that was most eclectic in the country. An Outline of Russian Literature We are held in contempt, but such was the fate of every prophet; they make us into mummers and we learn mummery, but Balzac and Turgenev rise from their own dust. A Novelist on Novels It is the fault—or virtue—of all subjective genius; however, not a fault or virtue of Flaubert or Turgenev or Tolstoy. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z All this is revealed by the published correspondence of Herzen and Turgenev. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Turgenev's brilliant analysis of Rudin must stand for all time as a perfect portrait of the educated Slav, a person who fulfils the witty definition of a Mugwump, "one who is educated beyond his capacity." Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Indeed, to a certain extent this reaction has set in in Western Europe, as M. Haumant, one of Turgenev’s ablest critics and biographers, pointed out not long ago. An Outline of Russian Literature Without being a great scholar, it is easy to perceive that our contemporary Russian authors are legitimate sons of Turgenev, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, and grandsons of Gogol, who himself is closely related to Pushkin. Contemporary Russian Novelists Henry James tells a story of an argument between Zola, Flaubert, and Turgenev, the Russian novelist declaring that for him Châteaubriand was not the Ultima Thule of prose perfection. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Turgenev was fully and entirely in sympathy with the Russian Revolution. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z The two works by Turgenev contained in the present volume are characteristic in their concern with social and political questions, and in the prominence in both of them of heroes who fail in action. Fathers and Children Yet to translate Turgenev adequately, it would require an English poet gifted with a sense of form and of words as rare as that of Turgenev himself. An Outline of Russian Literature This celebrated type cannot, however, be considered a true representative of the mentality of the "new men," for it gave only a few aspects of their character, which, besides, did not have Turgenev's sympathy. Contemporary Russian Novelists The four great masters, Gogol, Dostoievsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy, still ruled the minds of the intellectuals, but a younger element was the yeast in the new fermentation. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It has no connection with Turgenev's great novel of the same name. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Most of Turgenev's books I have read many times over, all of them I have read more than twice. Fathers and Children All Turgenev’s characters are alive; but, with the exception of his women and the hero of Fathers and Sons, they are alive in bookland rather than in real life. An Outline of Russian Literature In both Turgenev and Korolenko the surrounding country reflects the feelings and emotions of the heroes, and takes on a purely lyric character. Contemporary Russian Novelists He is as Slavic as Dostoievsky, more pessimistic than Tolstoy, though not the supreme artist that was Turgenev. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z While at Paris, Turgenev—who won immortality by a single word—wished to be introduced to him and celebrate his escape by a little banquet. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Turgenev was an enthusiastic hunter; and it was his experiences in the woods of his native province that supplied the material for "A Sportsman's Sketches," the book that first brought him reputation. Fathers and Children The result was a great disappointment to Turgenev, who had thought that, by writing a novel dealing with actual life, he would please and reconcile all parties. An Outline of Russian Literature As to Turgenev himself, he saw that the coming of this type would make concrete a rising force worthy of holding attention and also of commanding some respect. Contemporary Russian Novelists Nor is the shadow of Turgenev missing, not to mention that of Jane Austen. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Those who reproached Turgenev for Bazarov's scorn to work for mankind were right again. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Life showed itself to me in different colors after I had once read Turgenev; it became more serious, more awful, and with mystical responsibilities I had not known before. Fathers and Children Like Turgenev, he was a great landscape painter. An Outline of Russian Literature Turgenev, himself, although above all an artist, does not remain aloof from this educational work. Contemporary Russian Novelists Henry James went to France and read Turgenev. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z We read of Turgenev who was arrested and exiled to his distant estates for writing a brief obituary notice of Gogol. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Turgenev was not the man to call up such a figure. Fathers and Children He descends directly from Turgenev, although his field is a different one. An Outline of Russian Literature And when it was abolished, and when in the very heart of Russian society, among the younger generation, the revolutionists appeared, Turgenev attempted to paint these "new men." Contemporary Russian Novelists To lend poignancy to this mild epigram Mr. Hueffer misquotes it, substituting the name of De Maupassant for Turgenev's. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This quality of Russian writers is evidently racial, for even in the most artful of them—Turgenev—it is as apparent as in the least sophisticated. Another Sheaf These teachings, eagerly received by the Russian youth, were destined to produce a state of moral decomposition, the earliest symptoms of which were admirably analysed by Turgenev. Fathers and Children It is as real as Tolstoy, as finished in workmanship and construction as Turgenev. An Outline of Russian Literature Meanwhile he was ‘gorging’ on English and French literature, his chief idols being the brothers de Goncourt, de Maupassant, and Turgenev, and he got a story into the Yellow Book. When Winter Comes to Main Street This is the first introduction of Lyeskov, the famous Russian writer, and contemporary of Turgenev and Tolstoy to English readers. In the Mayor's Parlour This, no doubt, was what Turgenev meant when he asked, "Does not all prayer mean au fond a wish that in a given case two and two may not make four?" Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Turgenev raises through him the eternal problem—Has personality any hold, has life any meaning at all? Fathers and Children Turgenev did for Russian literature what Byron did for English literature; he led the genius of Russia on a pilgrimage throughout all Europe. An Outline of Russian Literature The great Russian novelist Turgenev said he would give all his fame and all his genius if there were only one woman who cared whether he came home late to dinner. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book He had read his Dostoevski and Turgenev; he had looked at those books of Russian impressions that deal in nothing but snow, ikons, and the sublime simplicity of the Russian peasant. The Dark Forest Turgenev was never shy of appearing in his pages as the reflective story-teller, imparting the fruits of his observation to the reader. The Craft of Fiction But if Turgenev's popularity suffered a shock in Russia from which it with difficulty recovered, in western Europe it went on increasing. Fathers and Children In Turgenev’s work, Europe not only discovered Turgenev, but it discovered Russia, the simplicity and the naturalness of the Russian character; and this came as a revelation. An Outline of Russian Literature Mrs. Garnett, to whom we are ever grateful, has surprised us delightfully by offering us some hitherto untranslated novelettes by Turgenev which seem to me to rank among his masterpieces. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Dostoevsky used to groan that his poverty left him no time or chance to write his best as Tolstoy and Turgenev could write theirs. The Art of Letters This is a small matter, I admit, but Turgenev extends it and pursues the same kind of course in more important affairs. The Craft of Fiction Especially in England, Turgenev became the idol of all that was eclectic, and admiration for Turgenev a hallmark of good taste.... Fathers and Children However this may be, there is no doubt about the importance of Turgenev in the history of Russian literature, whatever the future generations in Russia or in Europe may think of his work. An Outline of Russian Literature It is not yet wholly free from artificiality, and so is not yet typical of the purely realistic fiction that reached its perfected development in Turgenev and Tolstoy. Best Russian Short Stories It seems impossible with many people to praise Dostoevsky without saying that he is greater than Tolstoy or Turgenev. The Art of Letters But Turgenev was unsuspecting; he had not taken to heart the full importance of dramatizing the point of view—perhaps it was that. The Craft of Fiction Turgenev preaches no doctrine in his novels, has no remedy for the universe; but he sees clearly certain weaknesses of the Russian character and exposes these with absolute candor yet without unkindness. Fathers and Children In Virgin Soil, Turgenev attempted to paint the underground revolutionary movement; here, in the opinion of all Russian judges, he failed. An Outline of Russian Literature These qualities are exemplified at their best by Turgenev and Tolstoy. Best Russian Short Stories I am not a Turgenev hero, and if I ever wanted to free Bulgaria I shouldn't need a lady's company. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories The fiction of Turgenev is on the whole a case in point, to my mind. The Craft of Fiction Turgenev only extended its meaning by a new interpretation, destined to be perpetuated by the tremendous success of "Fathers and Children." Fathers and Children With the death of Turgenev and Dostoyevsky, the great epoch of Russian literature came to an end. An Outline of Russian Literature The very first work of importance by Turgenev, A Sportsman's Sketches, dealt with the question of serfdom, and it wielded tremendous influence in bringing about its abolition. Best Russian Short Stories I never could endure Turgenev's novels; and now, all of a sudden, as though to spite me, I've heroism forced upon me. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories With the single exception of Turgenev, the great novelists of the world, according to my own standards, have either ignored technique or have failed to understand it. The Author's Craft But though he is the most positive of all Turgenev's male portraits, there are others linking up the chain of delusion. Fathers and Children It was followed by Turgenev’s masterpiece, for which time can only heighten one’s admiration. An Outline of Russian Literature He was simply an extraordinarily gifted author, a perfect versifier, a wondrous lyrist, and a delicious raconteur, endowed with a grace, ease and power of expression that delighted even the exacting artistic sense of Turgenev. Best Russian Short Stories To these men you were laughable—you and your love and Turgenev; they said your head was full of him. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories But the fact remains that there are scores of perfect short stories, whereas it is doubtful whether anybody but Turgenev ever did write a perfect novel. The Author's Craft Turgenev put his hand upon the dark things. Fathers and Children The redeeming feature in the book is Mariana, the heroine, one of Turgenev’s finest ideal women; and it is full, of course, of gems of descriptive writing. An Outline of Russian Literature Turgenev deliberately accepted as his life-work a course which could only lead to the miseries of being misunderstood. Old and New Masters "What Turgenev has got to do with it I don't understand," said Gruzin softly, and he shrugged his shoulders. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories The figure of Bazaroff, in regard to whom Turgenev gave a new interpretation of the word "nihilist," possesses few of the revolutionary ideas that are now generally associated with his kind. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction In Turgenev's work, Europe not only discovered Turgenev, but it discovered Russia, the simplicity and the naturalness of the Russian character; and this came as a revelation. Fathers and Children Turgenev suffered from it; but the genius of Dostoyevsky and the art of Turgenev overstepped the limits of all barriers and frontiers. An Outline of Russian Literature When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. Old and New Masters Flaubert, the bulk of whose life was spent upon the most austere and restrained fiction—Turgenev was not more austere and restrained—broke out at last into this gay, sad miracle of intellectual abundance. An Englishman Looks at the World Yet Turgenev is not typical of that Russian school of novelists of which Tolstoy and Gorki are distinguished examples; rather he belongs to the school of Thackeray, George Eliot, and Dickens. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction In regard to the women of this class, Turgenev, strange to say, has little to say of the mothers. Fathers and Children He anticipated Turgenev’s Sportsman’s Sketches, and for the first time made Russian readers cry with sympathy over the annals of the peasant. An Outline of Russian Literature Luckily, if Turgenev could not put his trust in Russian men, he believed with all his heart in the courage and goodness of Russian women. Old and New Masters At the age of ten, Sol had read all of Gorki, Tolstoi, Turgenev and Dostoievski in the original and then devoured Hugo and Dumas in the language of his adoption. Library Work with Children The entire atmosphere is gloomy, and throughout is only relieved by the character of Irina, the most exquisite piece of feminine psychology in the whole range of Turgenev's novels. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction But at its best, Anderson's prose style in Winesburg, Ohio is a supple instrument, yielding that "low fine music" which he admired so much in the stories of Turgenev. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life The position of Tennyson in England offers in a sense a parallel to that of Turgenev in Russia. An Outline of Russian Literature With Turgenev, women are equal human beings—saviours of men and saviours of the world. Old and New Masters He found himself entirely out of sympathy with the group of literary men who gathered round him, with Turgenev at their head. The Forged Coupon To the end, however, Turgenev persisted that Bazaroff represented a type as he saw it, and the portrait was neither a caricature nor entirely a product of the imagination. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction The Russian novelist Turgenev suffered exactly in the manner in which Browning describes Saul's sickness of heart: for several days he would remain in an absolute lethargy, like the king-serpent in his winter sleep. Robert Browning: How to Know Him There is, indeed, something in common between Tennyson and Turgenev. An Outline of Russian Literature Mr. Edward Garnett has recently collected his prefaces to the novels and stories of Turgenev, and refashioned them into a book in praise of the genius of the most charming of Russian authors. Old and New Masters As has been recognised by the best French critics, Turgenev's art is both wider in its range and more beautiful in its form than the work of any modern European artist. The Jew and Other Stories About 1860 Ivan Turgenev, in common with many of the Russian writers of the period, found himself being carried away towards the study of social reform. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction TURGENEV.—Turgenev, less epical than Gogol, was also studious of local habits and dexterous in describing them. Initiation into Literature The Government rendered Turgenev the same service as it had done to Pushkin, in exiling him to his own country estate for two years. An Outline of Russian Literature He reminds us, for example, of the immense generosity of Turgenev to his contemporaries and rivals, as when he introduced the work of Tolstoy to a French editor. Old and New Masters Turgenev's horizon always broadens before our eyes: where Fielding and Richardson speak for the country and the town, Turgenev speaks for the nation. The Jew and Other Stories Educated at Moscow, St Petersburg, and Berlin, Ivan Turgenev began life in a government office, but after a year retired into private life. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Turgenev's genius was of the same force in politics as in art; it was that of seeing aright. On the Eve But, if Turgenev’s popularity suffered a shock in Russia from which it with difficulty recovered, in Western Europe it went on increasing. An Outline of Russian Literature "I cannot recover," Turgenev wrote:— That is out of the question. Old and New Masters It is, however, superfluous to draw further parallels between Turgenev and his great rivals. The Jew and Other Stories Turgenev was always the most widely read of Russian authors, not excepting Tolstoi, who came to the front only after his death. Rudin If Tolstoi is a purer native expression of Russia's force, Turgenev is the personification of Russian aspiration working with the instruments of wide cosmopolitan culture. On the Eve Especially in England, Turgenev became the idol of all that was eclectic, and admiration for Turgenev a hall-mark of good taste. An Outline of Russian Literature But we apply it to Turgenev in its fullest sense. Old and New Masters The novel modelled by Turgenev's hands, the Russian novel, became the great modern instrument for showing 'the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.' The Jew and Other Stories Whilst studying philosophy in the Berlin University, Turgenev paid short visits to his uncle, who initiated him in the ideas of liberty, from which he never swerved throughout his long life. Rudin Turgenev sought in vain in life for a type of man to satisfy Russia, and ended by taking no living model for his hero, but the hearsay Insarov, a foreigner. On the Eve Turgenev’s work in Russia is no longer disputed or a subject of dispute. An Outline of Russian Literature When Fathers and Children was published in 1862, the only people who were pleased were the enemies of everything in which Turgenev believed. Old and New Masters If you would study it in its highest form, the form the greatest artist of our time has perfected—remember Turgenev. The Jew and Other Stories This fact has been revealed a few years ago by the publication, which we owe to Professor Dragomanov, of the private correspondence between Turgenev and Hertzen. Rudin In comparing her with Turgenev's other women, the reader will remark that he is allowed to come into closer spiritual contact with her than even with Lisa. On the Eve It is taken for granted; and, whatever the younger generation will read and admire, they will always read and admire Turgenev first. An Outline of Russian Literature Turgenev seems to "come into the room" in his books with just such a welcome presence. Old and New Masters I advise my brothers to read—if they haven't already done so—Turgenev's "Hamlet and Don Quixote." Letters of Anton Chekhov Turgenev's are always the soundest, the most correct and far-sighted judgments, as latter-day history has proved. Rudin In the difficult art of literary perspective, in the effective grouping of contrasts in character and the criss-cross of the influence of the different individuals, lies the secret of Turgenev's supremacy. On the Eve Of course, there is more than this in Turgenev, but this is the main impression. An Outline of Russian Literature He quotes Turgenev as saying: "All my life is in my books." Old and New Masters For that public Tolstoy and Turgenev are too luxurious, too aristocratic, somewhat alien and not easily digested. Letters of Anton Chekhov This figure is undoubtedly one of the finest in Turgenev's gallery, and it is at the same time one of the most brilliant examples of his artistic method. Rudin And yet Turgenev's is but a sketch of an artist, compared with, let us say, the admirable figure of Roderick Hudson. On the Eve Turgenev’s work has a historic as well as an artistic value. An Outline of Russian Literature One finds in the Life of Sir Charles Dilke, for instance, that Dilke considered Turgenev "in the front rank" as a conversationalist. Old and New Masters Reference to Turgenev and Tolstoy—who avoided the "muck heap"—does not throw light on the question. Letters of Anton Chekhov Turgenev does not give us at one stroke sculptured figures made from one block, such as rise before us from Tolstoi's pages. Rudin Turgenev, in short, was a psychologist not merely of men, but of nations; and so the chief figure of On the Eve, Elena, foreshadows and stands for the rise of young Russia in the sixties. On the Eve An admirable description of a typical Russian conversation is given by Turgenev, in Virgin Soil:-- Essays on Russian Novelists This has been quoted against Turgenev as though he meant it literally, and as though it were a confession of denationalization. Old and New Masters When one thinks of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenin," all these young ladies of Turgenev's, with their seductive shoulders, fade away into nothing. Letters of Anton Chekhov Turgenev's are like people whose intimate confessions and private correspondence, unveiling all the secrets of their spiritual life, have been submitted to one. Rudin And here the irony of Insarov being made a foreigner, a Bulgarian, is significant of Turgenev's distrust of his country's weakness. On the Eve One in which I was seated passed Turgenev on foot. Essays on Russian Novelists It will deserve a place, both for the author's and the translator's sake, beside her Turgenev and Dostoevsky. Old and New Masters But it is a less tedious realism than that of Tolstoy or Turgenev. Revolution, and Other Essays Turgenev describes her synthetically by a few masterly lines, which show us, however, the secrets of her spirit; revealing what she is and also what she might have become under other circumstances. Rudin The last words of the novel, the most biting surely that Turgenev ever wrote, contain the whole essence of On the Eve. On the Eve But the letter is a final illustration of the modesty and greatness of Turgenev's spirit; also of his true Russian patriotism, his desire to see his country advanced in the eyes of the world. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev, as a creator of noble women, ranks with Browning and Meredith. Old and New Masters It was Turgenev who spoke of the half hundred countesses in Europe who claimed to have held the dying Chopin in their arms. Chopin : the Man and His Music Only later on, in Fathers and Children, does Turgenev show us in Bazarov a man essentially masculine. Rudin How petty and parochial appears her outlook in Emma, compared to the wide and unflinching gaze of Turgenev. On the Eve This is one of the very few scenes in Turgenev that ring false, that belong to fiction-mongers rather than to fiction-masters. Essays on Russian Novelists An Artist's Story—a beautiful sad story, which might almost have been written by Turgenev—contains a fine critical portrait of a woman absorbed in the egoism of good works. Old and New Masters Ivan Turgenev had the understanding that goes beneath the old delimitation of the novelist hide-bound by the law—"male and female created he them." Virgin Soil But of this interesting peculiarity of Russian intellectual life, in the years 1840 to 1860, I will speak more fully when analysing another of Turgenev's novels in which this contrast is most conspicuous. Rudin Whether Turgenev’s art, which has captured it with such mastery and such gentleness, is for “all time” it is hard to say. Notes on Life and Letters Turgenev in Fathers and Children gave us a sample of a real universal novel, notwithstanding the fact that its plot centres on the usual intimate relations of the principal characters. Essays on Russian Novelists This opinion interested one all the more because one had come to think of Turgenev as something of a shy giant. Old and New Masters Turgenev was born at Orel, son of a cavalry colonel, in ISIS. Virgin Soil Turgenev is a realist in the sense that he keeps close to reality, truth, and nature. Rudin But even by then, I think, women would not have changed much; and the women of Turgenev who understood them so tenderly, so reverently and so passionately—they, at least, are certainly for all time. Notes on Life and Letters As for Mariusha, she is a specimen of Turgenev's extraordinary power of characterisation. Essays on Russian Novelists There are, indeed, as I have said, plenty of suggestions for a portrait of Turgenev, quite apart from his novels. Old and New Masters If we cared to follow Turgenev strictly in his growth and contemporary relations, we ought to begin with his Sportsman's Note Book. Virgin Soil Yet, for a Russian at least, it is easier to lay down before the end a novel by Victor Hugo or Alexander Dumas than Dmitri Rudin, or, indeed, any of Turgenev's great novels. Rudin But for non-Russian readers, Turgenev’s Russia is but a canvas on which the incomparable artist of humanity lays his colours and his forms in the great light and the free air of the world. Notes on Life and Letters Turgenev was eclipsed by Dostoevski, and Tolstoi was forgotten for a time. Essays on Russian Novelists One sometimes wonders how Tolstoy and Dostoevsky could ever have quarrelled with a friend of so beautiful a character as Turgenev. Old and New Masters After the death of Turgenev, Tolstoi realised his greatness as he had never done before. Essays on Russian Novelists But in his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusively with one class of Russian people. Rudin From what one knows of his history it appears clearly that in Russia almost any stick was good enough to beat Turgenev with in his latter years. Notes on Life and Letters Besides Turgenev, "easily their chief," he mentioned five Russian writers, all but one of whom are now unknown or forgotten in America. Essays on Russian Novelists And probably Turgenev was as impatient with the faults of their strength as they were with the faults of his weakness. Old and New Masters It was in his first novel, Rudin, that Turgenev made the first full-length portrait of the typical educated Russian of the nineteenth century. Essays on Russian Novelists They were really cosmopolitan, as a poor makeshift for something better, and Turgenev, in making his hero die on a French barricade, was true to life as well as to art. Rudin The author of these words was not thinking of Turgenev: but his language is a faithful echo of Potugin. Essays on Russian Novelists As Turgenev expresses it, "she thirsted for action." Essays on Russian Novelists And if Turgenev was remorseless in nothing else, he was remorseless in this—truth as regards both his own sensations and the sensations of his contemporaries. Old and New Masters It is significant that in not one of Turgenev's seven novels is the villain of the story a man. Essays on Russian Novelists The spiritual energies of the most ardent are still compelled—partially at least—to run into the artificial channels described in Turgenev's novel. Rudin But Gemma falls into no group, nor is there any other woman in Turgenev with whom one instinctively classifies or compares her. Essays on Russian Novelists This is an exceedingly difficult scene for a novelist, but not too difficult for Turgenev, who has made it beautiful and sweet. Essays on Russian Novelists And so one year Tolstoy is laid prone as Dagon, and, another year, Turgenev. Old and New Masters The great five, whose place in the world's literature seems absolutely secure, are Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, and Tolstoi. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev gave to his country the whole of himself, the best of his mind and of his creative fancy. Rudin It is interesting to compare the world-wide appeal made by the novels of Turgenev, Dostoevski, and Tolstoi with that made by Thackeray and George Eliot, not to mention Mr. Hardy or the late Mr. Meredith. Essays on Russian Novelists From an artistic standpoint the novel is entirely unsatisfactory, not to say anything more out of respect for the talent of Turgenev, for his former merits, and for his numerous admirers. Essays on Russian Novelists Mr. Conrad suggests a certain vice of misshapenness in Dostoevsky when he praises the characters of Turgenev in comparison with his. Old and New Masters Mr. Turgenev came straight up to me at once. Essays on Russian Novelists Thus, during one of the most important and interesting periods of our national history, Turgenev was the standard-bearer and inspirer of the Liberal, the thinking Russia. Rudin The next novel, A House of Gentlefolk,* is, with the possible exception of Fathers and Children, Turgenev's masterpiece. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev probably thought he was, but really he was not. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev was probably conscious of this pessimism of imagination in regard to his fellow man—at least, his Russian fellow man. Old and New Masters Those who believe that the master passion of love expresses itself by floods of words or by abominable imagery, will understand Turgenev as little as they understand life. Essays on Russian Novelists With Turgenev the thinker and the artist are not at war, spoiling and sometimes contradicting each other's efforts. Rudin The best-known novel of Turgenev, and with the possible exception of A House of Gentlefolk, his masterpiece, is Fathers and Children, which perhaps he intended to indicate the real dawn suggested by On the Eve. Essays on Russian Novelists If every other person in all Turgenev's stories should be forgotten, it is safe to say that Bazarov will always dwell in the minds of those who have once made his acquaintance. Essays on Russian Novelists Mr. Garnett holds that the characterization of Insarov, the Bulgarian, in On the Eve, is a failure, and puts this down to the fact that Turgenev drew him, not from life, but from hearsay. Old and New Masters Turgenev hardly touches on any of the social questions of his day. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. Rudin He is like Turgenev in the delicacy and in the aloofness of his art. Essays on Russian Novelists It was written at Baden, while he was living with the Viardots, and I suspect that the influence of Madame Viardot is stronger in this work than in anything else Turgenev produced. Essays on Russian Novelists The most interesting character in the book, apart from the hero, is Jurii, who might easily have been a protagonist in one of Turgenev's tragedies. Essays on Russian Novelists Thus, although the temperament of Turgenev was entirely different from that of Gogol, he was born not far from the latter's beloved Ukraine. Essays on Russian Novelists Neither in the personality of Turgenev, nor in his talent, was there anything to strike and carry away popular imagination. Rudin There is no doubt that his fiery harangues gave Turgenev much material for his later novels. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev regarded brilliantly wicked women with hatred and loathing, but also with a kind of terror; and he has never failed to make them sinister and terrible. Essays on Russian Novelists It is characteristic, too, that while his student friends went wild at the theatre over Schiller, Turgenev immensely preferred Goethe, and could practically repeat the whole first part of Faust by heart. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev, like Goethe, was a natural aristocrat in his manner and in his literary taste--and had the same dislike for extremists of all kinds. Essays on Russian Novelists By the fecundity of his creative talent Turgenev stands with the greatest authors of all times. Rudin With the exception of Turgenev's quiet but profound pessimism, his temperament was very similar to that of the great German--such a man will surely incur the hatred of the true Reformer type. Essays on Russian Novelists The contrast between these two women, who instinctively understand each other immediately and the struggle of each for the soul of the hero, shows Turgenev at his best. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev was one of the best educated among modern men-of-letters; his knowledge was not superficial and fragmentary, it was solid and accurate. Essays on Russian Novelists But Turgenev had the passion for it characteristic only of the English race; and it is interesting to observe that this humane and peace-loving man entered literature with a gun in his hand. Essays on Russian Novelists Tolstoi is more plastical, and certainly as deep and original and rich in creative power as Turgenev, and Dostoevsky is more intense, fervid, and dramatic. Rudin In the whole range of literary history, it would be difficult to find two personalities more unlike than that of Turgenev and Mrs. Stowe. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev thoroughly relieved his mind in Smoke; and in the novel that followed it, Torrents of Spring, he omitted politics and "movements" altogether, and confined himself to human nature in its eternal aspect. Essays on Russian Novelists And yet, Turgenev, with all his secret admiration for the Frankenstein he had created, did not hesitate at the last to crush him both in soul and body. Essays on Russian Novelists The next novel, Smoke, despite its extraordinary brilliancy, is in many ways unworthy of Turgenev's genius. Essays on Russian Novelists As an artist, Turgenev in reality stands with the classics who may be studied and admired for their perfect form long after the interest of their subject has disappeared. Rudin Turgenev represents realism at its best, because he deals with souls rather than with bodies. Essays on Russian Novelists In sharp contrast with him, Turgenev has created the character Solomin, who is not at all "typically Russian," but who must be if the revolutionary cause is to triumph. Essays on Russian Novelists This was the occasion where Turgenev vainly tried to persuade Tolstoi to appear and participate. Essays on Russian Novelists His novels are filled with his personal experiences, he had an almost abnormal self-consciousness, and he bitterly complained that Turgenev, who did not need the money, received much more for his work than he. Essays on Russian Novelists To one familiar with all Turgenev's works it is evident that he possessed the keys of all human emotions, all human feelings, the highest and the lowest, the noble as well as the base. Rudin It is absurd to join in the chorus that calls Turgenev old-fashioned, when we find his words accurately, if faintly, echoed by a Russian who died in 1904! Essays on Russian Novelists He is the man of practical worth, the man who is not passion's slave, and Turgenev loved him for the same reason that Hamlet loved Horatio. Essays on Russian Novelists In 1857, after Tolstoi had visited him in Paris, Turgenev wrote, "This man will go far and will leave behind him a profound influence." Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev's poorest novel, Virgin Soil, which also gives us a picture of a factory, is immensely superior from every point of view. Essays on Russian Novelists We may say that the description of love is Turgenev's speciality. Rudin Turgenev had a fixed faith in the future of Tolstoi; he was already certain that a great writer had appeared in Russia. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev, most cultivated of novelists, never fails to rank simplicity of heart above the accomplishments of the mind. Essays on Russian Novelists As the aristocrat Turgenev learned Russian from a house servant, Gorki obtained his love for literature from a cook. Essays on Russian Novelists There are thousands of women in Russia like Musya, and they are now, as they were in the days of Turgenev, the one hope of the country. Essays on Russian Novelists There is something prodigious in Turgenev's insight into, and his inexhaustible richness, truthfulness, and freshness in the rendering of those emotions which have been the theme of all poets and novelists for two thousand years. Rudin One easily understands the varying emotions of Turgenev, who read the story piecemeal, in the course of its publication. Essays on Russian Novelists The great, healthy artist Turgenev always moves along levelled paths, in the fair avenues of an ancient landowner's park. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev's characters are never vague, shadowy, or indistinct; they are always portraits, with every detail so subtly added, that each one becomes like a familiar acquaintance in real life. Essays on Russian Novelists Again, Varvara herself is the type of society woman whom Turgenev knew well, and whom he both hated and feared; yet she is as distinct an individual as any that he has given us. Essays on Russian Novelists There is something of this in Turgenev's description of love. Rudin In that concrete illustration, Turgenev diagnosed the weakness of naturalism. Essays on Russian Novelists We shall not know until the year 1920 how far Turgenev was influenced by Madame Viardot, nor exactly what were his relations with this extraordinary woman. Essays on Russian Novelists On closing their novels, we never feel that wonderful afterglow that lingers after the reading of Turgenev. Essays on Russian Novelists THE life of Dostoevski contrasts harshly with the luxurious ease and steady level seen in the outward existence of his two great contemporaries, Turgenev and Tolstoi. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev began his literary career and won an enormous popularity in Russia by his sketches from peasant life. Rudin Much of Mr. Baring's language is an echo of Merezhkovski; but this Russian critic, while loving Dostoevski more than Turgenev, was not at all blind to the latter's supreme qualities. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev's method was first to write a story at great length, and then submit it to rigid and remorseless compression, so that what he finally gave to the public was the quintessence of his art. Essays on Russian Novelists In Paris he once more visited Turgenev, and then crossed over to London, where he saw the great Russian critic Herzen almost every day. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev first completely realised it in Rudin; he afterwards made it equally clear in Torrents of Spring, Smoke, and other novels.* Essays on Russian Novelists In Turgenev's novels we see only educated Russia, or rather the more advanced thinking part of it, which he knew best, because he was a part of it himself. Rudin All the afternoon I sat hoping and expecting that Turgenev might come, but I waited in vain. Essays on Russian Novelists It is seldom that Turgenev reminds us of Dickens; but Sipyagin and his wife might belong to the great Dickens gallery, though drawn with a restraint unknown to the Englishman. Essays on Russian Novelists Then came the brilliant follower of Gogol, Ivan Turgenev. Essays on Russian Novelists Dostoevski, seven years older than Tolstoi, and three years younger than Turgenev, was not so much a Realist as a Naturalist; his chief interest was in the psychological processes of the unclassed. Essays on Russian Novelists Although small numerically, the section of Russian society which Turgenev represents is enormously interesting, because it is the brain of the nation, the living ferment which alone can leaven the huge unformed masses. Rudin In Turgenev's Torrents of Spring, where the reader hears constantly phrases in Italian, French, and German, it will be remembered that the ladies ask Sanin to sing something in his mother tongue. Essays on Russian Novelists Years later, in her last illness, Turgenev made repeated attempts to see her, all of which she angrily repulsed. Essays on Russian Novelists Fortunately for all concerned, the father died while Turgenev was a boy, leaving him with only one--even if the more formidable--of his parents to contend with. Essays on Russian Novelists French, German, and English Turgenev learned as a child, first from governesses, and then from regular foreign tutors. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev did not write for the masses but for the elite among men. Rudin Turgenev made no answer; but over the troubled waters of his story moves the brooding spirit of creation. Essays on Russian Novelists It is significant that Turgenev has nowhere in all his novels portrayed a mother who combined intelligence with goodness. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev's novel is not a creation purely objective; in it the personality of the author steps out too clearly, his sympathies, his inspiration, even his personal bitterness and irritation. Essays on Russian Novelists He was surpassed by Turgenev, Dostoevski, and Tolstoi, but had he lived, he would have rejoiced in their superior art, just as every great teacher delights in being outstripped by his pupils. Essays on Russian Novelists Yet in certain special and peculiar conditions, the most unlikely things will sometimes occur, as is proved in the case of Turgenev. Rudin Turgenev had a veritable genius for admiration; he had recognised the greatness of his younger rival immediately, and without a twinge of jealousy. Essays on Russian Novelists I am constantly thinking of Turgenev and I love him passionately. Essays on Russian Novelists In 1880, Turgenev returned to Russia to participate in the Pushkin celebration, and was disappointed at Tolstoi's refusal to take part. Essays on Russian Novelists The word "transitional" has been altogether overworked in dealing with Turgenev. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev disdained the tricks of the sensational novelists. Rudin Turgenev finds his ideal in quite a different place, namely in the 'fathers,' in the more or less old generation. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev's girls never seem to have any fun; how different they are from the twentieth century American novelist's heroine, for whom the world is a garden of delight, with exceedingly attractive young men as gardeners! Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev with the instinct of genius saw through this fundamental movement in life and imaged it in living bright pictures with all its positive and negative, pathetic and humorous sides. Essays on Russian Novelists The prime difficulty was that in this book Turgenev had told a number of profound truths about life; and nobody wanted the truth. Essays on Russian Novelists Much of this peculiar gift of fascination is certainly due to Turgenev's mastery over all the resources of our rich, flexible, and musical language. Rudin Even apart from its unfinished shape, it is characterised by that formlessness so distinctive of the great Russian novelists the sole exception being Turgenev. Essays on Russian Novelists It is commonly said that Turgenev lacked passion; one might say with equal truth that Wordsworth lacked love of nature. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev often ridiculed in his novels the Russian Anglo-maniac; but in one respect he was more English than the English themselves. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev, like most novelists, began his literary career with the publication of verse. Essays on Russian Novelists The poet Lermontov alone wrote as splendid a prose as Turgenev. Rudin Turgenev is the great exception, and in this field he stands in Russian literature without a rival, even among the professional poets. Essays on Russian Novelists But with all that, the artistic qualities of his novels are incomparably below those of any one of the great Russian masters Tolstoi, Turgenev, or Goncharov. Essays on Russian Novelists Perhaps Turgenev meant that salvation would eventually come through a woman--through women like Elena. Essays on Russian Novelists The "fathers" were of course angry at Turgenev's diagnosis of their weakness; the "sons" went into a veritable froth of rage at what they regarded as a ridiculous burlesque of their ideas. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev's subsequent statement, that so far from Bazarov being a burlesque, he was his "favourite child," is hard to understand even to-day. Essays on Russian Novelists Still, the literary value of Smoke does not lie in the fact that Turgenev was a true prophet, or that he successfully attacked those who had attacked him. Essays on Russian Novelists This is a meditation in a graveyard, written in the manner of one of Turgenev's Poems in Prose, though lacking something of that master's exquisite beauty of style. Essays on Russian Novelists This situation has all the elements of true drama, as every one knows who has read or heard Carmen; it is needless to say that Turgenev has developed it with consummate skill. Essays on Russian Novelists The virtuous heroine of Torrents of Spring, Gemma, is unlike any other girl that Turgenev has created. Essays on Russian Novelists Her family circle are sketched with extraordinary skill, and her young brother is unique in Turgenev's books. Essays on Russian Novelists George Brandes has well said that the relation of Turgenev to his own characters is in general the same relation to them held by the reader. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev had once met a Russian provincial doctor,* whose straightforward talk made a profound impression upon him. Essays on Russian Novelists When the little son of Alphonse Daudet saw Turgenev and Flaubert come into the room, arm in arm, the boy cried out, "Why, papa, they are giants!" Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev had that peculiar gentle sweetness that so well accompanies great bodily size and strength. Essays on Russian Novelists What direction the influence of Madame Viardot on Turgenev took no one knows. Essays on Russian Novelists Then after Tolstoi had embraced Christianity, he considered it his duty to write to Turgenev, and suggest a renewal of their acquaintance. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev, whose ideal woman is all gentleness, modesty, and calmness, must have seen many thoroughly corrupt ones, to have been so deeply impressed with a woman's capacity for evil. Essays on Russian Novelists He wrote side by side with Turgenev and Tolstoi, and could not escape the annual comparison in production. Essays on Russian Novelists Chekhov's position in the main line of Russian literature and his likeness to Turgenev are both evident when we study his analysis of the Russian temperament. Essays on Russian Novelists In the novels of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, and Tolstoi we ought to find all the prominent traits in the Russian character. Essays on Russian Novelists Finally, in reading the works of Tolstoi, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Gorki, Chekhov, Andreev, and others, what is the general impression produced on the mind of a foreigner? Essays on Russian Novelists It is a long time before the reader can make up his mind whether he likes her or not--a rare thing in Turgenev, for most of his good women capture us in five minutes. Essays on Russian Novelists George Moore said that at a ball in Montmartre, he saw Turgenev come walking across the hall; he looked like a giant striding among pigmies. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev was charmed with her, and they remained intimate friends until his death forty years later. Essays on Russian Novelists When Madame Viardot gave up the opera in 1864, and went to live at Baden, Turgenev followed the family thither, lived in a little house close to them, and saw them every day. Essays on Russian Novelists I heard the late Professor Boyesen say that he had never personally known any man who suffered like Turgenev from mere Despair. Essays on Russian Novelists The typical Russian, as portrayed by Turgenev, says much, and does little; Solomin lives a life of cheerful, reticent activity. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev surely intended originally that we should love Bazarov; as a matter of fact, nobody really loves him,* and no other character in the book loves him for long except his parents. Essays on Russian Novelists It is rather interesting that Turgenev, who drew so many irresolute Russian characters, should have attained his widest fame by the depiction of a man who is simply Incarnate Will. Essays on Russian Novelists The one real conviction of Turgenev's life was pessimism,--the belief that the man of the noblest aspiration and the man of the most brutish character are treated by Nature with equal indifference. Essays on Russian Novelists He perhaps resembles Turgenev more than any other of his predecessors, but he is only a faint echo. Essays on Russian Novelists Henry James, who knew Turgenev intimately, and who has written a brilliant and charming essay on his personality, said that the mind of Turgenev contained not one pin-point of prejudice. Essays on Russian Novelists Perhaps no novels in any language have shown the impeccable beauty of form attained in the works of Turgenev. Essays on Russian Novelists George Moore queries, "Is not Turgenev the greatest artist that has existed since antiquity?" Essays on Russian Novelists This book is broad enough in scope and content to serve as the foundation of Russian fiction, and to sustain the wonderful work of Turgenev, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski. Essays on Russian Novelists Another reason why Turgenev's characters are so interesting, is because in each case he has given a remarkable combination of individual and type. Essays on Russian Novelists Besides, it was through Turgenev that the French, and later the whole Western world, became acquainted with Russian literature; for a long time he was the only Russian novelist well known outside of his country. Essays on Russian Novelists Finally, Turgenev, although an uncompromising realist, was at heart always a poet. Essays on Russian Novelists Turgenev had the temperament of a poet, just the opposite temperament from such men of genius as Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. Essays on Russian Novelists Still more sensational sounds come from the younger Russian men of to-day, and all this bewildering audacity of composition has in certain places drowned for a time the less pretentious beauty of Turgenev's method. Essays on Russian Novelists In March, accompanied by Turgenev, he went to Dijon, and saw a man executed by the guillotine. Essays on Russian Novelists |
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