Might it be that some kinds of love that came naturally if not easily to Turgenev are no longer available to us? |
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Turgenev had already given a polemical portrait of the peasant-loving Slavophile, Konstantin Aksakov. |
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When Potugin describes Gubarev as a Slavophile, we should realise that Turgenev, through his mouthpiece Potugin, is making a wounding polemical point. |
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Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature. |
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Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, v.s. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen. |
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Petersburg and Oryol, and to Spasskoye, to which Turgenev had eventually come home and where some of his best-know novels were written. |
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He translated works by Ivan Turgenev from Russian into English and, during the war, worked for the British Diplomatic Service. |
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