Turgenev

or Tur·ge·niev

[ tur-gen-yuh f, -geyn-; Russian toor-gye-nyif ]

/ tɜrˈgɛn yəf, -ˈgeɪn-; Russian turˈgyɛ nyɪf /

noun

I·van Ser·ge·e·vich

[ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1818–83, Russian novelist.

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Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen.
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He said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”
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Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
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With Turgenev, women are equal human beings—saviours of men and saviours of the world.
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In that concrete illustration, Turgenev diagnosed the weakness of naturalism.
Essays on Russian Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
Turgenev made no answer; but over the troubled waters of his story moves the brooding spirit of creation.
Essays on Russian Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
After the death of Turgenev, Tolstoi realised his greatness as he had never done before.
Essays on Russian Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
With Turgenev the thinker and the artist are not at war, spoiling and sometimes contradicting each other's efforts.
Rudin|Ivan Turgenev

British Dictionary definitions for turgenev

Turgenev

/ (Russian turˈɡjenɪf) /

noun

Ivan Sergeyevich (iˈvan sɪrˈɡjejɪvitʃ). 1818–83, Russian novelist and dramatist. In A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) he pleaded for the abolition of serfdom. His novels, such as Rudin (1856) and Fathers and Sons (1862), are noted for their portrayal of country life and of the Russian intelligentsia. His plays include A Month in the Country (1850)

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