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Roedin / Het adelsnest / Aan de vooravond / Vaders en zonen

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629 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1955

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Ivan Turgenev

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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 collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers 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 with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.

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June 16, 2021
Roedin p7 - 129 : ***1/2

Het Adelsnest : *** : grondlegger van de soap?

Aan de vooravond p290- 437 : ****
Boek draait om Helena. Drie jonkheren zijn in de running om haar man te worden. Een beeldhouwer, een academicus en een activist (Bulgaarse nationalist). Helena maakt haar keuze tegen de wil in van haar ouders. De personages worden heel geloofwaardig uitgewerkt, de gevoelens die gepaard gaan met "de strijd" om een vrouw worden treffend weergegeven. Nooit sentimenteel, mooi uitgebalanceerde roman.

Vaders en zonen p439 - 629 : ****
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