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Literary Reminiscences: And Autobiographical Fragments
Ivan Turgenev
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Description for Literary Reminiscences: And Autobiographical Fragments
Paperback. Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. "The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for."-New York Herald-Tribune. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: GB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 358.
Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. He offers, as well, brilliant studies of Pushkin, Gogol, Belinsky, Lermontov, and Krylov, and a penetrating account of his own difficulties in writing Fathers and Sons. There are also descriptions of travels through Italy, simply and beautifully written pieces on country life, and eyewitness accounts of the 1848 political riots ... Read more
Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. He offers, as well, brilliant studies of Pushkin, Gogol, Belinsky, Lermontov, and Krylov, and a penetrating account of his own difficulties in writing Fathers and Sons. There are also descriptions of travels through Italy, simply and beautifully written pieces on country life, and eyewitness accounts of the 1848 political riots ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
358 g
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634052
SKU
V9781566634052
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About Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), one of Russia's greatest nineteenth-century writers, is best known for his novel Fathers and Sons, his long story Smoke, and A Sportsman's Sketches.
Reviews for Literary Reminiscences: And Autobiographical Fragments
The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for...A lyric meditator who sees with a precise eye wherever he looks.
New York Herald-Tribune
New York Herald-Tribune