Metaphysical Conflict. A Study of the Major Novels of Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Bern
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Literature & literary studies
Description: Written between 1855 and 1862, the four novels "Rudin", "A Nest o f the Gentry", "On the Eve" and "Fathers and Sons" are generally recognised as Turgenev's most notable contribution to Russian and world literature. Are they primarily social chronicles, as Turgenev suggested, or are they rather to be seen as celebrations of life, of the beauty of love and youthful idealism? Are they paens to the nobility of the human spirit or ironic comments on human folly? The same questions are addressed in the present study, but the question with which it is principally concerned is that of the novels' essential character.
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