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  Ivan Turgenev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turgenev was born into an old and wealthy family at Orel, Russia, in the province of the same name, on October 28, 1818.
Turgenev's early attempts in literature, poems and sketches, had indications of genius and were favorably spoken of by Belinsky, then the leading Russian critic.
Turgenev occasionally visited England, and in 1879 the degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford.
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 Turgenev - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883), Russian author, considered the foremost stylist in Russian literature; his novels, poems, and plays are...
Russian author Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862) is a portrait of the turbulent Russian political landscape in the second half of the 19th...
Turgenev’s lasting fame comes from a series of compact and carefully crafted novels written in the late 1850s and early 1860s.
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 Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev's early attempts in literature, consisting of poems and trifling sketches, may be passed over here; they were not without indications of genius, and were favorably spoken of by Bielinski, then the leading Russian critic, for whom Turgenev ever cherished a warm regard.
Turgenev, during the latter part of his life, did not reside much in Russia; he lived either at Baden Baden or Paris, and chiefly with the family of the celebrated singer Viardot Garcia, to the members of which he was much attached.
Unquestionably Turgenev may be considered one of the great novelists, worthy to be ranked with Thackeray, Dickens and George Eliot; with the genius of the last of these he has many affinities.
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 Ivan Turgenev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev was born into an old and wealthy family at Orel[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
Torrents of spring, also known as spring torrents, was a short story written by ivan turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties....
A sportsmans sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by ivan turgenev that is often credited with persuading tsar alexander ii of russia to...
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 Dr. Anne Simpson's Author and Literature Links: Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883), Russian author, considered the foremost stylist in Russian literature; his novels, poems, and plays are characterized by elegant craftsmanship, lucidity, and a liberal, balanced point of view.
Turgenev was born November 9, 1818, in Orël in central Russia and educated at the universities of Saint Petersburg and Berlin.
Turgenev believed in the goals of his hero, but he also believed that they could be achieved only through a long period of gradual change rather than by revolution.
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 Ivan Turgenev's Singers - Introduction
Naturally, Turgenev's interest in Khor's character and family life is matched by an equivalent curiosity on Khor's part; their mutual ignorance is sufficient comment in itself on the division which exists between master and peasant.
Turgenev was in Salzbrunn during part of Belinsky's convalescence, and the latter's plea for justice in Russian social and -political life, as expressed in the Letter to Gogol, later became Turgenev's sole religious and political credo.
Of all the Sketches which Turgenev wrote, Bailiff, with its exquisitely savage portrait of the foppish tyrant Penochkin and its equally acute study of his bailiff, is by far the most outspoken attack on the exploitation of the peasantry.
www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/ahern/hunt-intro.htm   (2999 words)

  
 Ivan S. Turgenev
Turgenev portrayed realistically the peasantry and the rising intelligentsia in its attempt to move the country into a new age.
Ivan Turgenev was born in Oryol, in the Ukraine region of Russia, into a wealthy family.
Turgenev's mother had given birth in 1833 to a natural daughter, whose father was rumored to be Dr. Andrey Bers.
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 Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Turgenev studied in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Berlin, and he became an enthusiastic advocate of the Westernization of Russia.
Turgenev’s most fruitful period was the decade 1850–60, the latter half of which he spent in Western Europe.
Turgenev also wrote several plays, including A Month in the Country (1850), in which he made several dramatic innovations that Chekhov later developed, and the comedy A Provincial Lady (1851).
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 Turgenev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev was brought up at Spasskoye and educated at the Universities of Moscow, St Petersburg and Berlin.
Turgenev was sent to jail for a month and then to exile on his estate and remained under police supervision until 1856.
Turgenev in a letter to Pauline Viardot from France where he had made a long stay in 1852 though realising that his life in Russia was essential to him as a writer:
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 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: T :: Turgenev, Ivan
Although Turgenev has been overshadowed by his contemporaries Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, he remains one of the major figures of the 19th-century Russian literature.
Ivan Turgenev was born in Oryol, into a wealthy family.
Turgenev studied at St. Petersburg (1834-37) and Berlin Universities (1838-41), and completed his master's exam in St Petersburg.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/t/turgenev.shtml   (861 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Ivan Turgenev
Of all the classic novelists of Russia’s nineteenth century, Turgenev is considered to be the one most readily accessible to the western reader.
Turgenev championed their works in Russia and, as well as more informal contacts, they met as a group dining together once a month.
The conventional view of Turgenev’s novels is that they are innocent of the extremism and melodrama of a Dostoevsky, or the didacticism of a Tolstoy.
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 LitKicks: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
A remarkably prolific writer, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's romanticized view of justice, thirst and liberalism contributed greatly to the thinking of Soviet Underground writers, particularly the mid-dynasty.
Turgenev believes that progress comes through political change and that the mystical and the religious are distractions.
Turgenev skill in writing was largely in his ability to capture character as he explored political and social themes.
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 The Willa Cather Archive | Cather Studies, Vol. 1
Mirsky observes in his discussion of Turgenev: "The, strong, pure, passionate, and virtuous woman, opposed to the weak, potentially generous, but ineffective and ultimately shallow man, was introduced into literature by Pushkin, and recurs again and again in the work of the realists, but nowhere more insistently than in Turgenev's" (192-93).
However, Turgenev's most significant influence on Cather may well have involved not the kinds of characters she created but rather her sense of the role of character and its relationship to fictional structure and theme.
The striking parallels between the fictional theories and techniques of Cather and Turgenev suggest that Willa Cather was greatly influenced by her reading of Turgenev and by James's remarks on his work.
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 wbur.org Arts - Theater - A Month in the Country
As Aileen M. Kelly explores in her brilliant essay, "The Nihilism of Ivan Turgenev," the Russian writer "maintained that there was a tragic discontinuity between all human values and ideals and the objective processes of nature and history." His public liberalism was undercut by a belief in the radical disjunction between human desires and reality.
Turgenev's figures are more isolated; there is no sense that their ennui can be relieved.
Turgenev's dour tragedy and psychological realism are muted -- all that Friel and the HTC leave of the play is the amusing spectacle of zany people getting on each other's nerves.
www.wbur.org /arts/2002/50141_20020916.asp   (840 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fathers and Sons (Konemann Classics): Books: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev,Constance Black Garnett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev is in fact a wonderful stylist: economical, precise, lyrical when it befits his characters, yet never wordy.
Turgenev's approach to his characters is similarly nimble and balanced; sometimes he adopts a more distant tone, sometimes he's in a particular character's head, sometimes he gives a brief description of a character's backgound, at others a character will relate another's history from his point of view.
In a way, Turgenev is the anti-Dostoevsky (intending no disrespect to the master); at every opportunity where he might stage a cathartic "pathetic scene"--the duel, the climactic encounter over the deathbed of one of the main characters--he stays true to the fundamentally disjointed nature of life.
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 Ivan Turgenev at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Иван Тургенев, November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, poet, and writer.
Turgenev was born into a wealthy family, but suffered at the hands of an emotional and abusive mother, who terrified young Ivan.
Unlike the other two great Russian writers of this time, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Turgenev was uninterested in religion, and this led to a strained, highly artificial friendship with the other two.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Ivan Turgenev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev thrusts his snarling young radicals into the venerable world of fathers when Bazarov accompanies Arkady to the Kirsanov country estate.
To the English reader On the Eve is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian household, with a delicate analysis of a young girl's soul; but to Russians it is also a deep and penetrating diagnosis of the destinies of the Russia of the fifties.
TURGENEV was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament.
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 “Fathers and Sons” - by Ivan Turgenev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev was the first of the great Russian novelists to win fame abroad.
What Turgenev depicts in Fathers and Sons in the the character of Bazarov, Eugene Rose (Father Seraphim) explicitly describes in his work Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age.
Turgenev himself was not a man of strong religious convictions, and he does not have the spiritual depth of a writer like Dostoevsky.
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 The Country Doctor
Ivan Turgenev was born in Orel, Russia, of wealthy, landowning parents.
Returning to Russia, Turgenev entered the Ministry of the Interior and embarked upon a career as a civil servant that soon left him restless and unhappy.
Abandoning government service for literature, Turgenev experienced almost immediate success with the publication (at first serially, 1847 to 1851; and then in book form, 1852) of A Sportsman's Sketches, a series of lyrical, yet realistic portraits of Russian peasant life, and the treatment of the serfs at the hands of the nobility.
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 Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
One of the last acts of the elder writer, performed on his deathbed, was to address to the other (from whom for a considerable term he had been estranged by circumstances needless to reproduce) an appeal to return to the exercise of the genius that Tolstoy had already so lamentably, so monstrously forsworn.
Turgenev is in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelists' novelist--an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable and ineradicably established.
Turgenev's sense of it was the great light that artistically guided him; the simplest account of him is to say that the mere play of it constitutes in every case his sufficient drama.
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 Turgenev's early upbringing
Ivan Turgenev was exposed early to Byron and Byronism in both European and Russian forms.
Perhaps his mother's greatest contribution to Turgenev was her death in 1850, the result of which was a sizeable inheritance that, had he been a better manager of money, would have left him financially comfortable for the rest of his life (Lowe 1989, 22).
Spasskoe became a place for Turgenev to gain inspiration, to write, and to be exiled to, though he preferred to travel and live throughout Europe.
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 Statue of Ivan Turgenev in St. Petersburg, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev is depicted seated on a bench and leaning on a staff in a pose like that of Jupiter from classical mythology.
The statue seems to be of Olympian grandeur, and indeed Turgenev's height was often remarked on by his contemporaries.
Although he died in France, Turgenev was also buried in the city, as he had requested.
www.saint-petersburg.com /monuments/turgenev.asp   (200 words)

  
 Ivan Turgenev, by Ivan Turgenev
We present here some English translations of the work of the great Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883).
Following is a list by Constance Black Garnett (1862-1946), which were printed at the end of the 19th century in London by W. Heinemann and in New York by Macmillan.
Turgenev and Tolstoy, Theatre between psychologism and realism, by Franco Manzoni
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 Virgin Soil, by Ivan Turgenev (introduction1)
Afterwards they went on to read Tolstoi, and Turgenev’s powerful and antipathetic fellow- novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual revelation of his country’s predicament did not lose its effect.
It is one of a series of portraits, wonderfully traced psychological studies of the Russian dreamers and incompatibles of last mid-century, of which the most moving figure is the hero of the earlier novel, Dimitri Rudin.
Turgenev was born at Orel, son of a cavalry colonel, in ISIS.
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 Granta: Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was born into a wealthy family of the Russian landed gentry and educated in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Berlin.
He made his name as a writer with A Sportsman's Sketches, an unvarnished picture of Russian country life that is said to have influenced Tsar Alexander II's decision to liberate the serfs.
A tragic masterpiece in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world.
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 Carl Sagan + Ivan Turgenev
It was also on this date, November 9, 1818, that Russian novelist, poet and playwright Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, was born in Orel.
Turgenev is chiefly noted in the West for his 1862 novel, Fathers and Sons (Ottsy i Deti).
Unlike Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Turgenev was uninterested in religion, although he was great friends with Gustave Flaubert, an Atheist.* Isaac Pavlovsky's 1887 biography says Turgenev "was a freethinker and detested the apparatus of religion very heartily."**
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 Sketches from a Hunter's Album - Ivan Turgenev - Penguin Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting.
His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters - peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers - each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons.
His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.
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