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Rudin

Rudin

Garnett, Constance
Sir Angels
Ivan Sergeyevich, Turgenev

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 154408000X
ISBN13: 9781544080000
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 4 2017
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Rudin was written by Turgenev in the immediate aftermath of the Crimean War, when it became obvious to many educated Russians that reform was needed. The main debate of Turgenev's own generation was that of Slavophiles versus Westernizers. Rudin depicts a typical man of this generation (known as 'the men of forties'), intellectual but ineffective. This interpretation of the superfluous man as someone who possesses great intellectual ability and potential, but is unable to realize them stems from Turgenev's own view of human nature, expressed in his 1860 speech 'Hamlet and Don Quixote', where he contrasts egotistical Hamlet, too deep in reflection to act, and enthusiastic and un-thinking, but active Don Quixote. The main character of the novel, Rudin, is easily identified with Hamlet.

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