- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (Dec 1959)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0374526621
- ISBN-13: 978-0374526627
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.1 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,127,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What makes a great writer? What should his attitude be to his own environment and to European culture? How should he transmute his own experience of life into a work of art? And how should he keep his integrity in face of censorship.<P>These and other vital questions bearing directly on the art of creative writing Ivan Turgenev considers in his immensely fascinating Literary Reminiscences, towards the end of his life and now translated for the first time into English. These Reminiscences contain several brilliant sketches of famous Russian writers; including Belinsky, Gogol, Krylov and Lermontov, as well as tantalizing glimpses of Pushkin. In addition, the book contains fragments of Turgenev's autobiography, each one of which is not only of biographical value but of outstanding psychological interest among them is his own account of A Fire at Sea'.<P>The Literary Reminiscences have been translated by David Magarshack, who has written an introduction filling in the of the various in the book and thus making it into one conservative and casily comprehensible whole. Edmund Wilson, in his long, full and characteristically stimulating prefatory Essay, combines literary criticism with an examination of Turgenev's extraordinary family and early environment.
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This is a story of an episode in the life of a Russian man. It takes place in Germany in the early 1800s and is told in retrospect. The man has a chance encounter with an Italian girl that turns his life around, and the story revolves around the consequences that come of this. It is a tale of love and betrayal, and the instability of the human heart. This is not the best book I've read by this author, but it is still better than most books written today. The style reminded me mostly of Dickens, and not so much of typical Russian literature written in this period. There are a few interesting and memorable characters, but I would not rate this book among the great classics.
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3 April 2000
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This is the translation that I first read (years after it was published) and loved. The novel has been around a long time but its attraction can be won or lost according to the translation. Another, later translation irked me so much that I didn't want to finish reading it. Now that I've found my favorite translation -- which I think is more poetic and does better justice to the style and mood of the Russian original -- I'm buying a copy for myself and one for a gift to someone in high school.
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