First love, ndand other stories. The Jew, and other stories

First love, ndand other stories. The Jew, and other stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Languages : en
Pages : 732

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First love, ndand other stories. The Jew, and other stories

First love, ndand other stories. The Jew, and other stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Pages : 732

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The Works of Iván Turgénieff: First love and other stories. The Jew and other stories

The Works of Iván Turgénieff: First love and other stories. The Jew and other stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Languages : en
Pages : 744

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The Novels and Stories of Iván Turgénieff: First love and other stories

The Novels and Stories of Iván Turgénieff: First love and other stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories

The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories PDF Author: Max Apple
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Call it Kmart magical realism.-Washington Post Book World

First Love and Other Stories

First Love and Other Stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in one volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."

First Love...

First Love... PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Pages : 372

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The Jew and Other Stories

The Jew and Other Stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146559003X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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In studying the Russian novel it is amusing to note the childish attitude of certain English men of letters to the novel in general, their depreciation of its influence and of the public's 'inordinate' love of fiction. Many men of letters to-day look on the novel as a mere story-book, as a series of light-coloured, amusing pictures for their 'idle hours,' and on memoirs, biographies, histories, criticism, and poetry as the age's serious contribution to literature. Whereas the reverse is the case. The most serious and significant of all literary forms the modern world has evolved is the novel; and brought to its highest development, the novel shares with poetry to-day the honour of being the supreme instrument of the great artist's literary skill. To survey the field of the novel as a mere pleasure-garden marked out for the crowd's diversionÑa field of recreation adorned here and there by the masterpieces of a few great menÑargues in the modern critic either an academical attitude to literature and life, or a one-eyed obtuseness, or merely the usual insensitive taste. The drama in all but two countries has been willy-nilly abandoned by artists as a coarse playground for the great public's romps and frolics, but the novel can be preserved exactly so long as the critics understand that to exercise a delicate art is the oneserious duty of the artistic life. It is no more an argument against the vital significance of the novel that tens of thousands of peopleÑthat everybody, in factÑshould to-day essay that form of art, than it is an argument against poetry that for all the centuries droves and flocks of versifiers and scribblers and rhymesters have succeeded in making the name of poet a little foolish in worldly eyes. The true function of poetry! That can only be vindicated in common opinion by the severity and enthusiasm of critics in stripping bare the false, and in hailing as the true all that is animated by the living breath of beauty. The true function of the novel! That can only be supported by those who understand that the adequate representation and criticism of human life would be impossible for modern men were the novel to go the way of the drama, and be abandoned to the mass of vulgar standards.Ê

The Jew and Other Stories

The Jew and Other Stories PDF Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Aeterna Classics
ISBN: 3963769688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Turgenev's place in modern European literature is best defined by saying that while he stands as a great classic in the ranks of the great novelists, along with Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray, Meredith, Tolstoi, Flaubert, Maupassant, he is the greatest of them all, in the sense that he is the supreme artist. As has been recognised by the best French critics, Turgenev's art is both wider in its range and more beautiful in its form than the work of any modern European artist.

Phantoms and Other Stories

Phantoms and Other Stories PDF Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Fear and Other Stories

Fear and Other Stories PDF Author: Chana Blankshteyn
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814349293
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s stories depicting the tumultuous interwar years in Europe. Fear and Other Storiesis a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860–1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired during her long and productive life. The mere existence of these stories is itself a remarkable feat as the collection was published in July 1939, just before the Nazis invaded Poland and two weeks before Blankshteyn’s death. Anita Norich’s introduction argues that this is not a work of Holocaust literature (there are no death camps, partisans or survivors of WWII), but anti-Semitism is palpable, as is the threat of war and its aftermath. What could it have felt like to live under these conditions? How might a woman who was a feminist, a Jew, and an activist understand the recent past of war and revolution through which she had lived and also confront the horror that was beginning to unfold? The nine stories in this volume take place primarily in Vilna, as well as various parts of Europe. As if presaging what was to come, World War I and Russian civil wars are the backdrops to these stories, as Jews and non-Jews find themselves under German occupation or caught up in the revolutionary fervor that promised them much and took away almost everything. The young women in Blankshteyn’s stories insist on their independence, on equality with their lovers, and on meaningful work. Like the men in the stories, they study, work, and yearn for love. The situations in which these characters find themselves may be unfamiliar to a contemporary reader, but their reactions to the turmoil, the frighteningly changing times, and the desire for love and self-expression are deeply resonant with today’s audience. The history may be specific, but the emotions are universal. Blankshteyn’s stories are both a view of the final gasp of Eastern European Jewish culture and a compelling modern perspective on the broader world. Students and scholars of history and culture, women’s literature, and translation studies will wonder how they’ve gone this long without reading Blankshteyn’s work.