Ivan Turgenev, Rudin

Glyn Turton (University of Chester)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1856

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Rudin is the first novel of the major Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). A reader innocent of nineteenth-century Russian literature, save for a vague pre-conception that it consisted principally of very long works, might be surprised by the modest length of Rudin, which, in scale, conforms to the Russian sub-genre of the povest’ – a short novel or novella. This is a form, which, by trial and error, Turgenev was to make his own. By the time he wrote Rudin, in 1855, Turgenev had succeeded as a short story writer, attracting critical acclaim and Tsarist disapproval, for his humanitarian tales, Zapiski okhotnika [A Sportsman’s …

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Citation: Turton, Glyn. "Rudin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 March 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11249, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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