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Leandro Apostol
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Lezhnev's eulogy to Rudin reflects the intellectual predicament of the Russan soul and the superfluous man: "Rudin's misfortune is that he does not know Russia...Russia can manage without any of us, but none of us can manage without Russia. Woe betide any man who thinks he can..."
— Mar 09, 2017 05:00AM
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Leandro Apostol
is on page 133 of 322
Rudin...dry and insipid in content, sentimental evocations of rural Russia and the attachment of persons to the land (as Turgenev's style dictates), but nonetheless very interesting story. Allegory to internal ideological tensions within Russia between Western-oriented liberal reforms and the Slavophil strand of nihilism. Story largely reliant on meaning conveyed through dialogue.
— Mar 09, 2017 10:03PM
Leandro Apostol
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Rudin's youth seems like an autobiography of Turgenev's European education.
— Mar 06, 2017 09:44AM
