The Torrents of Spring

Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich; Ivy Litvinov; Tatiana Litvinov

ISBN 10: 0802115942 / ISBN 13: 9780802115942

Published by Grove Press, New York, 1996

About this Item

1/2 red cloth, gilt spine, marbled boards, in box,174 pages : 22 full page illustrations by Valentin Popov,translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov. a fine copy in fine box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Torrents of Spring
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802115942
• ISBN 13: 9780802115942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: illustrated by Valentin Popov
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

What makes a great writer? What should his attitude be to his own environment and to European culture? How should he transmute his own experience of life into a work of art? And how should he keep his integrity in face of censorship.

These and other vital questions bearing directly on the art of creative writing Ivan Turgenev considers in his immensely fascinating Literary Reminiscences, towards the end of his life and now translated for the first time into English. These Reminiscences contain several brilliant sketches of famous Russian writers; including Belinsky, Gogol, Krylov and Lermontov, as well as tantalizing glimpses of Pushkin. In addition, the book contains fragments of Turgenev's autobiography, each one of which is not only of biographical value but of outstanding psychological interest among them is his own account of A Fire at Sea'.

The Literary Reminiscences have been translated by David Magarshack, who has written an introduction filling in the of the various in the book and thus making it into one conservative and casily comprehensible whole. Edmund Wilson, in his long, full and characteristically stimulating prefatory Essay, combines literary criticism with an examination of Turgenev's extraordinary family and early environment.

From the Back Cover

Composed thirty years after the events it describes, SPRING TORRENTS is an exquisitely written, partly autobiographical treatment of one of Turgenev's favourite themes-man's inability to learn about love without losing his innocence. This translation by Professor Schapiro is accompanied by detailed notes and a critical essay on the story's place significance in its author's life and work.