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Turgenev: Asya

Turgenev: Asya

Andrew, J.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
Gregory, F.

Paperback

Series: Russian Texts

RussianLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 185399295X
ISBN13: 9781853992957
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.68
Language: English

Turgenev's povest' (or novella) Asya, of 1858, has a Rhineland setting. Asya, the illegitimate daughter of a Russian landowner, is travelling abroad with her half-brother. The narrator falls in love with her, but cannot bring himself to propose marriage until it is too late. Asya has gone. The narrative stance here struck by Turgenev - one of remorseful recollection - renders Asya one of his most poignant tales. It immediately occasioned a lively debate among contemporary Russian critics: over 'weak' as against 'positive' heroes, and the position of the intellectual vis à vis the people. At a more submerged level of the tale, the heroine's 'narrative' has until recently tended to be overlooked.

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