Young Muscovite bachelor Yakov Aratov lives in contented
solitude, until the arrival in town of the dazzling actress Clara
Militch:
"'She was all fire, all passion, and all contradiction;
revengeful and kind; magnanimous and vindictive; she believed in
fate - and did not believe in God.'"
Her beauty entrances him, beyond her tragic death; and soon, for
the formerly level-headed rationalist Aratov, dreams, fever and the
spirit world blend and merge together. These tales involve
Turgenev's enthusiasm for spirituality, ghosts and premonitions,
usually suppressed in his works but an intriguing counterpoint to
the powerful naturalism of which he was master.
This volume contains Clara Militch," "Phantoms," "The Song of
Triumphant Love," "The Dream and Turgenev's marvellously realized
Poems in Prose, which conclude with his famous avowal:
"'In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on our country's
fate, thou alone art my stay and support, mighty, true, free
Russian speech But for thee, how not fall into despair, seeing all
that is done at home? But who can think that such a tongue is not
the gift of a great people '"
Constance Garnett's 1897 translation succeeds in capturing the
subtleties and delicacy of Turgenev's own poetic prose.
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