Enough

by Ivan Turgenev

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25 pages, Paperback

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Keely · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Turgenev for two main reasons: his prose which is so beautiful it can break then mend your heart in a single moment and his habit of making me think about things I haven't thought of before; of making me look at life and humanity as something beautiful but broken; of making me analyse myself and my surroundings and implement change. He's a once in a lifetime writer and I'm SO grateful I found him.

Enough was a beautiful examination of what life means; of what beauty is; of the immortality of nature and the mortality of humanity. Beautiful and melancholy and absolutely Russian.