literature
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Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album: On Suffering
As a work of 19th-century Russian literature, it is no surprise that the Sketches contains much suffering in it. In keeping with his role as an interested yet detached observer, Turgenev simply describes the plight of his characters “as it is”, appended with only a few heartfelt or ironic comments from himself, never going beyond…
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Turgenev’s Sketches from A Hunter’s Album: On The Value of Nature
This is part one of a series of posts exploring Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. I recently finished reading Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. It is a compilation of short “sketches” about Russian country life written by Turgenev whilst hunting on his mother’s estate in the early 19th-century, and was first…
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