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Ivan Turgenev

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Biography

Name: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Birth Date: November 9, 1818
Death Date: September 3, 1883
Place of Birth: Orel Province, Russia
Place of Death: Bougival, France
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, dramatist, writer

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Biography of Ivan Turgenev
14,826 words, approx. 49 pages
Henry James--friend, colleague, and student--said of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev that he was "in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelist's novelist, an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable, and ineradicably established." Turgenev himself was...
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Biography of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
2,443 words, approx. 8 pages
The Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a founder of the Russian realistic novel. He ranks as one of the greatest stylists in the Russian language. The life of Ivan Turgenev is woven like a...
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Biography of Ivan Turgenev
2,129 words, approx. 7 pages
Although his most enduring work is the novel Fathers and Sons, Russian realist writer Ivan Turgenev changed the lives of Russian serfs with his 1852 book Zapiski okhotnika, much as American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe did the lives of America's black...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ivan Turgenev Information
1,607 words, approx. 5 pages
<p>Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈgʲeɪvʲɪtɕ turˈgʲenʲɪf]) (November 9 <small>[O.S. October 28]</small> 1818 – September 3 <small>[O.S. August 22]</small> 1883)...


News and Journals
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AP News
Reality tempers idealism in `Salvage'
2/18/2007: 574 words, approx. 2 pages
The passions of their idealistic youth run up against reality and middle-age for the 19th century revolutionaries and intellectuals in "Salvage," the third chapter of "The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's masterful trilogy of man's quest for a new and better world.Rueful resignation isn't as...
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The New York Observer
Stoppard\'d5s History Lesson: Russian Revolutionaries 101
12/3/2006: 1,331 words, approx. 4 pages
As you enter the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center for the opening installment of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about the fate of the revolutionary intellectuals of mid-19th-century Russia, it would be understandable if you were overcome by the fear that you...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Sander Brouwer
18,221 words, approx. 61 pages
In the following excerpt, Brouwer studies elements of Romanticism and Realism in Turgenev's short stories, suggesting that the author creates a tension between the two styles in his short prose.
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Critical Essay by Nick Worrall
16,011 words, approx. 53 pages
In the following excerpt, Worrall analyzes all of Turgenev's plays except A Month in the Country.
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Critical Essay by Nancy H. Traill
15,677 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following essay, Traill discusses elements of the paranormal and the supernatural in Turgenev's fiction.
 


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