Turgenev: A Reading of his Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) - Softcover

Seeley, Frank Friedeberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521114993 ISBN 13: 9780521114998

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Unlike his contemporaries, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) has until recently received less than his fair share of attention from Western scholars. This comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction begins by outlining the writer's life and sketching his personality. It provides a brief survey of his poetry and plays as the prelude to the fiction and reviews some aspects of his literary criticism in their bearing upon it. The main body of the book is devoted to readings of the individual works - A Sportsman's Sketches, the novels and all the stories. Professor Seeley focuses principally on the complexity and subtlety of Turgenev's portrayal of the psychology of his characters - a hitherto neglected aspect of his art. His approach challenges traditional views still current in the critical literature of both the East and the West. The book has been designed to be accessible not only to Slavists, but also to scholars and students of other literatures.

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Book Description:

This comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction challenges traditional assumptions of both Eastern and Western critics. It focuses principally on the complexity and subtlety of Turgenev's portrayal of the psychology of his characters. The book is designed to be accessible not only to Slavists, but to other literary scholars.

Review:

This new, comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction challenges traditional assumptions of both Eastern and Western critics. It begins by outlining the writer's life and sketching his personality, provides a brief survey of his poetry and plays as the prelude to the fiction, and reviews some aspects of his literary criticism in their bearing on it. It offers readings of the individual works, focusing principally on the complexity and subtlety of Turgenev's portrayal of the psychology of his characters. -- Book Description

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521114993
• ISBN 13: 9780521114998
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396