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 lang...
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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 Har...
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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,...
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In the essay below, Sayler surveys Turgenev's dramatic output, stressing the realistic aspects of his work.
When the art and the literature of two countries are as widely separated by the barri...
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In the following excerpt, Perry analyzes Turgenev's depiction of love in his plays.
Gogol's Marriage and The Gamblers were published in 1842. The next year marks the beginning of the wor...
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In the following excerpt from a work that was first published in 1966, Valency finds Turgenev's plays a mixture of realism and idealism, noting that they demonstrate "a very different re...
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In the following excerpt, Worrall analyzes all of Turgenev's plays except A Month in the Country.
Turgenev's reputation as a dramatist, in the English-speaking world, rests largely on a ...
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The first American performance of A Month in the Country in English was a Theater Guild presentation that premiered on 24 March 1930. In the following assessment, Skinner praises nearly every aspect o...
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In the review below of the Theater Guild production of A Month in the Country, Krutch extols Turgenev 's penetrating psychological portraits of the characters.
The Theater Guild's experi...
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In this review, Young offers a mixed evaluation of the Theater Guild presentation of A Month in the Country, arguing that the actors were unable to fully convey the subtleties of Turgenev's cha...
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In the following assessment of A Month in the Country, Hutchens argues that the Theater Guild actors significantly enlivened Turgenev's rather diffuse and vague play.
To Turgenev's A Mon...
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In the review below, Wyatt declares: "For characterization and acting, A Month in the Country is unex-celled. "
Feeling perhaps that their season so far has lacked luster, the Theater Gu...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1920, Fisher discusses features found in Turgenev's short stories and novels that reveal the author's experiences and observations.
The Au...
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In the following essay, Allen considers Turgenev's Poems in Prose as the appropriate conclusion to a great literary career in an attempt to reassert the author's position in literary his...
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In the following essay, Costlow discusses Turgenev's treatment of female characters, particularly Odintsova, in his most famous novel.
Turgenev Women discuss events, know about actors, look for...
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In the following essay, Smyrniw explores possible sources for Turgenev's representation of treacherous women in his novels.
Nimm dich in acht vor ihren schönen Haaren, Vor diesem Schmuck...
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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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In the following essay, Traill discusses elements of the paranormal and the supernatural in Turgenev's fiction.
If the transformations in Dickens's fantastic tales correspond roughly to ...
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In the following essay, Johanson examines Turgenev's female characters as realistic representations of contemporary Russian women.
“Kukshina … that progressive louse which Turgene...
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In the following essay, Freeborn discusses Turgenev's literary legacy one hundred years after his death.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev was born in 1818 and died in 1883. He was born into the privile...
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In the following essay, Eekman discusses the recurring love theme in Turgenev's short stories as well as his repeated use of first person narrators and framed story-within-a-story structural de...
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In the following essay, Woodward discusses Turgenev's consistent treatment in his novels of characters who are powerless and unable to direct their own lives.
The essential impotence of man is ...
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In the following essay, Lowe provides an overview of the critical response to Turgenev's work.
Turgenev and the Critics
As an artist, Ivan Turgenev has long since acquired the reputation of an ...
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In the following excerpt, Knowles discusses Turgenev's novels Smoke and Virgin Soil, both poorly received in Russia but acclaimed by critics elsewhere in the world.
Smoke
Smoke, Turgenev'...
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In the following essay, Briggs examines the importance of dogs in Turgenev's life and literature.
Turgenev's Dogs
I wish to honour the name of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in a curious way&...
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In the following essay, Barta discusses Turgenev's short story “Faust” in conjunction with the author's 1856 review of a translation of Goethe's Faust.
Both Turgenev...
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In the following essay, Sheidley argues that the character of Vasily in “Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District” embodies the Hamletic type described in Turgenev's essay “Haml...
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In the following essay, Dalton finds parallels between Karolina Pavlova's “A Double Life” and Turgenev's “Faust.”
At first glance a comparison between one of ...
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In the following essay, Costlow explores the concept of attachment in Turgenev's “The Meeting” and Aleksandra Markelova's “In the Work Corner.”
Inscribed in a...
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In the following essay, Jackson rejects the unfavorable critical reviews of “Knock … Knock … Knock! …,” calling Turgenev's story one of the strongest in Russi...
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In the following essay, Gregg investigates the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne on Turgenev's later short fiction.
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In temperament, background and—in the loosest sense—philosophy...
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In the following essay, Costlow explores the influence of Evgeniia Tur's Antonina on Turgenev's “Neschastnaia.”
In a letter of 1868 to Pavel Annenkov, Ivan Turgenev spoke o...
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In the following essay, Seeley traces Turgenev's development as a short story writer through an examination of his early short stories.
Turgenev's ‘remarkable decade’ (1843...
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In the following essay, Seeley explores the dominant motif of the superfluous man in Turgenev's stories written from 1853 to 1862.
In the decade from 1843 to 1852, superfluous men, or forerunne...
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In the following essay, Waddington investigates the possible influence of the British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton on Turgenev's fantastical fiction.
My subject is the possible influence of Edwa...
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In the following essay, Frost examines the imagery in “Living Relics,” maintaining that “Turgenev's craftsmanship in weaving a complex network of subtle images merits fulle...
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In the following essay, Barta analyzes the role of women in “Faust” and considers the story in relation to Turgenev's critical essay on Goethe's drama Faust.
Both Turgenev&...
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In the following essay, Silbajoris discusses the ways in which the aesthetic principals of Ivan Turgenev inform the realist social critique expressed in his short story collection Sportsman's N...
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
