Posted by Lale on 25/4/2008, 19:31:28, in reply to "Turgenev - Nest of Gentry"
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Is your copy's title: Nest of Gentry?
Mine is called "Home of the Gentry" and I have seen "Home of the Gentlefolk" as well.
I am halfway through.
Lale
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: Has anyone else finished this selection or still
: planning to read it?
:
: I've read several of Turgenev's shorter novels
: recently, and enjoy his understated way of dealing
: with intense emotional situations. His novels also
: draw to realistic conclusions rather than fairly tale
: happy endings.
:
: Nest of Gentry is unique, and somewhat awkward, in the
: way it spends a significant part of the narrative
: digressing into the history of the Lavretsky family.
: Was this necessary? The family history says a lot
: about Russia and its attitude towards foreign styles
: and education, but it isn't essential to the main plot
: line.
:
: Turgenev's short novel Spring Torrents has the same
: type of love triangle as Nest of Gentry. An educated
: but indecisive man is caught between a sweet and pure
: young girl like Liza and a femme fatale like Varvara.
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