Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
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Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leading novelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience. In Russia works such as his A Hunter's Notes and Fathers and Sons, were pivotal in transforming the Russian social landscape. No less sensational than his novels was his personal life. For forty years, until the day he died, he was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot, following her and her husband around Europe and even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. What, then, did Turgenev mean by "love," the word at the core of his life and work? Robert Dessaix has had his own forty-year relationship with Turgenev, first as a student of Russian in both Australia and Russia, then as a teacher, and now as what he calls a close friend. In Twilight of Love, Dessaix has come to see Turgenev's life and work as an expression of a turning point in the history of love --the moment the Romantic became rational, love unraveled into sentiment and erotic feelings, and eros became a mere commodity.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1593760639
ISBN13:9781593760632
Release Date:July 2005
Publisher:Counterpoint LLC
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 8.8"
Customer Reviews
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a gem!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This is a book about travel - about love - and about Turgenev. I knew next to nothing about Turgenev when I began reading it and, if you're reading this soley to learn about the great Russian author - don't! This is a book about falling in love - with people, with subjects and with landscapes. I am a college professor and too often I see students who are just not besotted with ANY subject. This book will show you the heights to which a spirit may climb once it has found its passion. A perfect summertime read - episodic, intelligent, entertaining and inspiring.
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