On Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. Many Russian novels of ideas have adopted Turgenev’s device of describing intellectual dispute as a conflict of generations. Many Russian novels of ideas have ...

Abroad, Ivan Turgenev is not well-known, unjustly so, since he is one of the great Russian classic writers of the 19th century. In honor of the 200th anniversary of his birth (Nov. 9), we explain why ...

In the grand tradition of awkward homecomings, the opening of Ivan Turgenev’s “Fathers and Children” holds a place of honor. It is the spring of 1859 and Arkady Kirsanov has returned to his father’s ...

Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix (320pp, Scribner, £12.99) To Travel Hopefully: Journal of a Death Not Foretold by Christopher Rush (288pp, Profile, £15.99) What drives us ...

"Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was, " declared Ernest Hemingway of the great Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) who painted a lyrical but vivid and convincing portrait of ...

Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written. It is a gesture of artistic defiance to the urgencies of the age – which demanded of an artist as Russian as Turgenev ...

Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. All Things Considered talks with writers about their ...

“The greatest of the nineteenth century Russian novelists wrote out of the profundities of a silent country,“ writes translator Richard Freeborn in his introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of ...

The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson Paris productions of Chekhov, Turgenev and Ostrovsky avoid current events and focus ...