The first of Turgenev's social novels, Rudin was first
translated by Constance Garnett into English in 1894.
The main protagonist Dmitri Rudin is a representative of men of
that time, being knowledgeable and enthusiastic about new ideas and
the search for truth. As S. Stepniak states in his introduction to
the text in 1894 Rudin's 'enthusiasm is contagious because it is
sincere, and his eloquence is convincing because devotion to his
ideals is an absorbing passion with him. He would die for them,
and, what is more rare, he would not swerve a hair's-breadth from
them for any worldly advantage, or for fear of any hardship'.
Despite this Rudin's enthusiasms and attachments lack warmth and
compassion. He views the world and its people through the books he
has studied and at the first test to his strength of purpose he
fails.
Dmitri Rudin remains therefore a character full of
contradictions but it is these contradictions that make him real
and one of Turgenev's greatest achievements.
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