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Ivan Turgenev

A concise guide to Ivan Turgenev's body of work, major titles, and recurring themes.

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Author overview

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) was a novelist, poet, and playwright whose body of work spans novels. This writing is associated with Russian Empire. Major works and useful reading starting points include Fathers and Sons, Poems in Prose, A Month in the Country, and Home of the Gentry. Key themes include Generational conflict without a simple winner, Ideas tested by lived experience, Love as connection and disturbance, and Class, reform, and contradiction.

Reading pathway

Begin with Fathers and Sons.

Representative starting points

Fathers and Sons

A young graduate brings his fiercely skeptical friend home, where arguments about science, art, class, love, and social change reveal that neither the older nor the younger generation fully understands itself.

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