Turgenev
or Tur·ge·niev
[tur-gen-yuh f, -geyn-; Russian toor-gye-nyif]
- I·van Ser·ge·e·vich [ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1818–83, Russian novelist.
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Contemporary Examples
Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen.
He said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”
Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
Historical Examples
Yet no one would ever call Turgenev a romanticist, or Stevenson a realist.
The Complete Essays of John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy
But it is a less tedious realism than that of Tolstoy or Turgenev.
Revolution and Other EssaysJack London
Turgenev had indeed roused the ire of both sides, only too surely.
Fathers and SonsIvan Sergeevich Turgenev
We may say that the description of love is Turgenev's speciality.
RudinIvan Turgenev
There is something of this in Turgenev's description of love.
RudinIvan Turgenev
Turgenev
- 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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