Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev During the discussion‚ several articles were presented to the class. The subjects brought to light were the Russian economy during the 1850s‚ serfdom‚ and the question of whether Turgenev was obsolete or not. The articles on the Russian economy explained the state of transition the Russian economy was in during the mid-1850s. Prior to this period‚ there were members of the society called serfs. These were essentially slaves who worked on the fields of rich peasants
Premium Ownership Property Russia
First Love by Ivan Turgenev (An Analysis) "Self-sacrifice is sweet - for some people." Critical Approach: Reader-Response The novelette is entitled First Love. At first‚ I thought this is some kind of a light-sailing story about a first romance. But I guess I judged the title too early‚ and realized while reading that it was indeed a depiction of the agonies of an unrequited first love. Suspense. That’s what i felt while the story is still unfolding. Vladimir’s search for Zinaida’s
Premium Love Affection Marriage
Literature 151 Professor John Joseph McCann Pride‚ a quality or a flaw? Pride has raised some into great happiness‚ but has also sunk others in failure and despair. In the novel “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev‚ is indeed pride that makes the conflict arise. Where a Nihilistic graduate is exposed to a traditional but constantly changing alien society he is not willing to accept. Bazarov discovers that his pride was his biggest determination‚ as well as his biggest obstacle. Ultimately he
Premium Nikolai Gogol Family Nihilism
The Open Boat. Honoré de Balzac is often credited with pioneering a systematic realism in French literature‚ through the inclusion of specific detail and recurring characters.[3][4][5] Fyodor Dostoyevsky‚ Leo Tolstoy‚ Gustave Flaubert‚ and Ivan Turgenev are regarded by many critics as representing the zenith of the realist style with their unadorned prose and attention to the details of everyday life.[citation needed] In German literature‚ 19th-century realism developed under the name of "Poetic
Premium Gustave Flaubert William Dean Howells Anton Chekhov
mysterious unattainability in the Princess. Her love for Pavel was described as having an element of melancholy‚ and she soon grew cold to him. In the wake of his failure and rejection from the one he loved‚ Pavel becomes desperate for the Princess. Turgenev recounts the story: He was on the rack‚ and he was jealous; he gave her no peace‚ followed her about everywhere; she grew sick of his pursuit of her‚ and she went abroad. He resigned his commission in spite of the entreaties of his friends and the
Premium Love
1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
Premium Gustave Flaubert American novelists Henry James
Being an ardent realist‚ he sees humans as flawed and selfish‚ and seeks to live above them through science and destruction. He disdains the romanticist acts of various other characters: “A decent chemist is twenty times more useful than any poet” (Turgenev 21); also he mocks Nikolai Petrovich’s cello playing and Arkady’s devotion to Katya‚ to whom he advises to “restrain her sentimental tendencies.” (72). It’s this disrespect for people’s basic need for sentimentality that leads him to advocate a nihilistic
Premium Humanities
Themes of Nihilism in Crime and Punishment Nihilism is one of the most difficult philosophies to accurately define because of its ambiguous nature. In its simplest form‚ one might consider it an extremely pessimistic form of skepticism in which the individual discounts even the idea of existence. Therefore‚ to a nihilist‚ all values‚ relationships‚ authority‚ beliefs‚ and emotions are baseless and empty. First popularized in Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons in 1862‚ nihilism is associated with
Premium Nihilism Existentialism Friedrich Nietzsche
A Narrative of Exile: Milos Crnjanski’s Roman o Londonu (A Novel about London) Abstract Milos Crnjanski‚ one of the most prominent Serbian authors of the 20th century‚ was forced to leave Yugoslavia after the Second World War‚ owing to his connections with the pre-Communist regime. In Roman o Londonu‚ Crnjanski reflects on the two decades he spent exiled in post-war London. In his pivotal work‚ Crnjanski centres Russian rather than Serbian immigrants: the protagonists‚ Nikolaj and Nadja Rjepnin‚
Premium Russia Sociology Soviet Union
The Characters of Hermann‚ Akaky Akakyevich‚ and the Underground Man and their conflict with the world around them In the present paper I plan to analyze the characters of Hermann from Alexander Pushkin’s "Queen of Spades"‚ Akaky Akakyevich from Nocolai Gogol’s "The Overcoat"‚ and the Underground Man from Dostoevsky’s "Notes From the Underground". The characters will be looked at from the perspective of a conflict each of them has with their surrounding reality. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Premium Nikolai Gogol