Smoke - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Books - Independently Published - 9798575074403 - December 5, 2020
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Smoke

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Smoke

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novels. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky. On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancée Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina-now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles-unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil. Around this love story Turgenev constructs a sharply satirical exposé of his countrymen, which famously embroiled its author in a heated quarrel with Dostoevsky. A melancholy evocation of impossible romance, Smoke represents the apogee of Turgenev's later fiction.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 5, 2020
ISBN13 9798575074403
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 236
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 13 mm   ·   557 g
Language English  

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