Ivan Turgenev, Nov' [Virgin Soil]

Kathryn Ambrose (Independent Scholar - Europe)

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 1877

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Nov’ [Virgin Soil] was published in 1877, and was Turgenev’s last novel. In this work, he returns to political themes, which he had eschewed for some ten years, ever since the publication of Dym [Smoke, 1867]. Virgin Soil depicts the “Going to the People” movement of the 1870s in Russia; accordingly, Turgenev uses a purely Russian locale, after setting his two main previous works (Dym and Veshnie Vody [Spring Torrents, 1872]) in Germany. However, despite this Russian setting, Virgin Soil feels somewhat detached from the Russia it is meant to represent, especially …

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Citation: Ambrose, Kathryn. "Nov'". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 September 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11254, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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