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Virgin Soil
[Paperback - 2000]
ivan turgenev
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics - Political Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9780940322455 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .295 | Dimensions: 5.1 x .88 x 7.97 inches

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Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil, his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions about what their future held in store. At the heart of the book is the story of a young man and a young woman, torn between love and politics, who struggle to make headway against the complacency of the powerful, the inarticulate misery of the powerless, and the stifling conventions of provincial life. This rich and complex book, at once a love story, a devastating, and bitterly funny social satire, and, perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside, is a tragic masterpiece in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world.

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev(Cyrillic:Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collectionA Sportsman’s Sketches(1852) and the novelsRudin(1856),Home of the Gentry(1859),On the Eve(1860), andFathers and Sons(1862).These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece,Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.Turgenev was a contemporary withFyodor DostoevskyandLeo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.

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