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Letters (Hardcover)
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Letters (Hardcover)
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Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first
to achieve real fame outside of his own country. He spent most of
his adult life in Western Europe and started to write letters, not
just to keep his friends informed of his progress, but 'in order to
receive replies'. An entertaining and accomplished correspondent,
he rarely objected to publication of his letters, which were
written with that possibility in mind. This selection of full
letters spans more than fifty years, from 1831 until just before
Turgenev's death in September 1883. Turgenev enjoyed conversations
by post, debating social and political questions, and issues in
literature, art and music. Among his correspondents were major
writers of the day (including Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Henry
James, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky) as well as friends and relations.
Many of the letters reveal his views on contemporary literary and
social events in Russia and Europe; others, to his publishers,
translators and to aspiring authors, give some of his criteria for
a writer. These letters will not provide an answer to the Turgenev
enigma, but they do show many sides of this fascinating and
mercurial man.The letters are in chronological sections. A
biographical framework is provided both by the introductions to
these sections and to individual letters, and by the inclusion of
letters covering the main events of his life. This selection is an
important contribution both to our knowledge and understanding of
nineteenth-century Russian and European history and literature.
A.V. Knowles is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of
Liverpool and is the editor of the Tolstoy volume in The Critical
Heritage series.
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