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Turgenev

or Tur·ge·niev

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

noun

  1. I·van Ser·ge·e·vich [ee-, vahn, syi, r, -, gye, -yi-vyich], 1818–83, Russian novelist.


Turgenev

/ turˈɡjenɪf /

noun

  1. TurgenevIvan Sergeyevich18181883MRussianWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist 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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Yet for all the emotional truth in these characters, from Turgenev and Ostrovsky to Chekhov, the sentence for those who stray is harsh.

Franz Liszt taught her piano, and Ivan Turgenev adored her.

The acclaimed writer pairs these essays with short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol to offer a master class in the mechanics of fiction.

He’s celebrated as a literary heir to giants like Turgenev, Gogol and Nabokov, but at times, he’s questioned the value of literature, dismissing novels as “just paper with typographic signs.”

It’s the nation, for God’s sake, that gave birth to Gogol and Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev and Baryshnikov and Stravinsky and Makarova.

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