Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev is the largest prose writer of the 19th century, in the history of world literature he entered as one of the creators of the classical novel. He caught the most important ideological searches of his time and it was he who introduced the concept of “extra man”, identifying them the type of disappointed hero who developed in Russian literature, starting from the works of Griboedov and Pushkin.
Turgenev opened a paradox key for Russian mentality: on the one hand, the search for a moral ideal, on the other hand, the tragic impossibility to achieve it. This publication includes works related to different stages of the writer’s work.
Author
Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Small Library of Masterpieces
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