Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition - Softcover

Turgenev, Ivan; Garnett, Constance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1731703821 ISBN 13: 9781731703828

Verlag: Simon & Brown, 2018

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"Drawn from his first-hand observation of the countryside and its ways of life, Turgenev's anecdotes, portraits, and lyrical impressions depict the peasants and the tyranny of serfdom with such immediacy that when the first of these sketches appeared in book form in 1852 they were read as inflammatory polemic and led to his arrest and confinement at his estate of Spasskoye"--Back cover of different printing.

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Turgenev's artistic purity made him a favorite of like-minded novelists of the next generation, such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, both of whom greatly preferred Turgenev to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. James, who wrote no fewer than five critical essays on Turgenev's work, claimed that "his merit of form is of the first order" (1873) and praised his "exquisite delicacy", which "makes too many of his rivals appear to hold us, in comparison, by violent means and introduce us, in comparison, to vulgar things" (1896). Vladimir Nabokov, notorious for his casual dismissal of many great writers, praised Turgenev's "plastic musical flowing prose", but criticized his "labored epilogues" and "banal handling of plots". Nabokov stated that Turgenev "is not a great writer, though a pleasant one" and ranked him fourth among nineteenth-century Russian prose writers, behind Tolstoy, Gogol and Anton Chekhov, but ahead of Dostoyevsky. His idealistic ideas about love, specifically the devotion a wife should show her husband, were cynically referred to by characters in Chekhov's "An Anonymous Story".

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• Verlag: Simon & Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1731703821
• ISBN 13: 9781731703828
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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