| Smoke by Ivan Turgenev, Fiction, Classics, Literary Contributor(s): Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247695 ISBN-13: 9781592247691 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "The profound disillusion following the failure of the Revolutionary movement of 1848 swept over the intellectuals of Europe. The restless futility, self-searching, flabbiness of will so native to this type are incarnate in one of Turgenev's greatest characters, Rudin." -- from John Reed's 1919 Introduction to "Smoke" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Russia - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The profound disillusion following the failure of the Revolutionary movement of 1848, which swept over the intellectuals of Europe, had also its characteristic repercussion among the intellectual youth of Russia, and made a generation like the later generation so well portrayed by Chekov -- the men of the 1880s, and also like the Intelligentsia after the failure of the Revolution of 1905. The restless futility, self-searching, flabbiness of will so native to this type are incarnate in one of Turgenev's greatest characters, Rudin. They persist in numerous characters in Smoke, and are not absent from the make-up of Litvinov himself -- nor of Turgenev, for that matter. The conception of the futility of effort, of revolution, of political ideas in general, the tranquility attained only by seeing life from the standpoint of eternity, Turgenev had already enunciated in Fathers and Children. He wished to see life with Olympian calm; the irony of Basarov's death is a keynote of his profound pessimism. But in Smoke there is bitter satire, showing that life to him was still a battle, an exasperation." -- from John Reed's 1919 Introduction to SMOKE |
Contributor Bio(s): Turgenev, Ivan: - "Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction." |
