First love ivan sergeyevich turgenev6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() "Passion in all its forms always excited Turgenev, but he was happiest portraying its earliest intimations fulfilment made him uneasy. ![]() He is best when eschewing all fancy stuff and describing exactly what happened, as he does in First Love" - John Bayley, The New York Times Book Review ![]() It is a masterpiece that shows the curious literalism of Turgenev's talent. "(T)he tale that exploits most effectively Turgenev's gifts of pathos and humor, insight and self-awareness - the strengths of his own passivity, so to speak - is First Love.It is a gesture of artistic defiance to the urgencies of the age - which demanded of an artist as Russian as Turgenev to "lift the nation" - yet it remains an authentic attendance to those urgencies: the old order versus the new" - Hisham Matar, The Guardian "Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written.Also available in translations by Isaiah Berlin (1950) and Richard Freeborn (1999)Ī- : simple and very effective tale of young love.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author ![]() Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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