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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.
Der Rahmen der sieben Erzählungen - Erinnerungen des alternden Schriftstellers -passte sehr gut zu meinem derzeitigen Alter, in dem man Zurückliegendes nochmals mit anderen Augen und anders deutend erlebt. Es sind Geschichten, die auf unterschiedliche Art/Inhalt die alltäglichen Nöte, Ängste und Widerstände der dem Adel unterworfenen Bevölkerung der vorrevolutionären russischen Gesellschaft beschreiben. Dabei werden auch sehr gründlich seelische Zustände, Leidenschaften und deren Folgen in politischer aber auch zwischenmenschlicher Hinsicht dargestellt. Damals noch unerforschte Randzonen zwischen bewusstem und unbewusstem menschlichen Handels werden ergreifend sichtbar gemacht. Und sind auch zeitlos lehrreich. Kann man deshalb gut mehrmals lesen.