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And what Turgenev said of the renewal of interest in Pushkin may also be said of the rediscovery of Turgenev: "Under the influence of the old, but not yet obsolete master... the laws of art... will again exert their power."
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in the West Turgenev has had ardent defenders: Flaubert, Henry James, Howells, Conrad, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Louis Aragon, and others have written or spoken sensitively about Turgenev.
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Boris Eichenbaum, who dismissed Turgenev in a two-thousand-word essay for a class-oriented "artistizm." Turgenev's "every word" was mannered; he contributed no new word to Russian literature. He was simply "out of date.
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When I think of Russia," H. G. Wells wrote in 1910, "I think of what I have read of Turgenev."
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Lowe:highly unlikely that Turgenev will be forgotten. He will be remembered remembered for his enigmatic personality, his role as a spokesman for his age &for his position as cultural intermediary between Russia and Western Europe. So much for Turgenev the writer. #Turgenev25

Lowe sees Turgenev as one of the "literary giants" of the nineteenth century seemingly destined for "a permanent position in the pantheon of literary greats," yet with each passing year Turgenev's "literary stock slips a little lower." He has become an icon.
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"We [the Russian people] will hold out. Russia will endure." Here Chekhov only echoes Turgenev's Potugin .
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Chekhov, recalled Russian theater director Nemirovich-Danchenk, cried out almost in despair that "Russia must pay for its past" that "colossal sufferings" "will accompany the birth of the new Russia & they are inevitable. Colossal illnesses go with a great people." #Turgenev25

Turgenev noted the people's "repugnance to civic responsibility & to independent initiative." "Take science, civilization & gradually cure [the] people)," he wrote to Herzen. The Russian people, he wrote later to another correspondent, need "helpers not herders." #Turgenev25

If the Russian revolution of 1905 went awry, Merezhkovsky argues, it was because there was "too much of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in it, and too little of Turgenev.
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Merezhkovsky opposes the "minimalist" Turgenev, Russia's "true conservator," Pushkin's legatee who first revealed to Europe that "Russia is also Europe.
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To Russia's maximalists-Tolstoy with his cultural iconoclasm, his desire to save Russia "peasant style, holy fool style," and Dostoevsky with his contempt for the "godless, rotten west" and his conception of Russia as "the only God-bearing people"-
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Nabokov: But there was a common debility about Turgenev's nature and art; he was incapable of making his masculine characters triumph within the existence he invents for them.
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Nabokov: Bazarov is a strong man, no doubt and very possibly had he lived beyond his twenties. he might have become, beyond the horizon of the novel, a great social thinker, a prominent physician, or an active revolutionary.
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Turgenev as author says Bazarov's eyes "gleamed with their last light," but has Bazarov say in his own voice, "Goodbye breathe on the dying lamp and let it go out Enough Now, Darkness." It is a poet's death.
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Bazarov, on the contrary, suffers from an unconsciousness of the metaphoric nature of language.
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Bazarov, on the contrary, suffers from an unconsciousness of the metaphoric nature of language.
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Bazarov, like the underground man, is sick, and Turgenev is extremely acute in diagnosing Bazarov's disease: he is suffering from an illness that is the opposite of Dostoevskij's anti-hero, who suffered from an excess of "consciousness"
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Bazarov holds that science is a system that is true to the extent it is free from the confusions of language. It is he, the polar opposite of the underground man,who holds up the extralinguistic proposition that
2x2=4 as the ultimate argument for the truth of science
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Romantic means Puškin, it means literature, it means metaphors. It means, in other words, inaccurate or deceptive language. Poetry can become outmoded because it is in a language that is false.
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when differences in language are dramatized, it is to dramatize ideological differences
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When Odincova invites Bazarov for a walk she says "I want you to teach me the Latin names of the wild-flowers." And Bazarov seeks to mark off the difference between them by insisting on the fact they speak different languages: "What use are the Latin names to you?"
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Finding in Turgenev "merely" beauty, it is inevitable that Mirsky concludes by saying, "We do not seek wisdom [in Turgenev]." Turgenev, in other words, is the literary equivalent of the proverbial dumb blonde.
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He is precisely what the most characteristic strand of Russian criticism would have most vigorously objected to, i.e., someone who is only an artist, someone who provides merely aesthetic pleasure.
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Not only is Turgenev not a novelist, he is more precisely not a Russian novelist. I take this to mean that he is unlike Tolstoj or Dostoevskij insofar as he is not a thinker.
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Unlike Tolstoy or Dostoevsky," or virtually any other important figure of nineteenth century Russian literary culture-"Turgenev is no longer a teacher. his work has become pure art..."
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Finding in Turgenev "merely" beauty, it is inevitable that Mirsky concludes by saying, "We do not seek wisdom (in Turgenev]."Turgenev, in other words, is the literary equivalent of the proverbial dumb blonde.
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He is precisely what the most characteristic strand of Russian criticism would have most vigorously objected to, i.e., someone who is only an artist, someone who provides merely aesthetic pleasure
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