Kód: 06841619

Edge of The Nest

Name: Edge of The Nest
Brand: Troubador Publishing
SKU: 06841619
Availability: OutOfStock

Autor Christopher Cruise

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Počet stran: 648
Nakladatelství: Troubador Publishing, 2015
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The Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev lived in turbulent times. This fictional biography, solidly founded on historical and literary research, explores his life and work - from his childhood, dominated by his tyrannical mother, to his last years, in the tender care of Pauline Viardot, the Franco-Spanish diva who was the love of his life. Author Christopher offers insights into other affairs and flirtations, together with his ambivalent relationship with his illegitimate daughter Paulinette, the result of a half-hour liaison with a servant girl. The reader is transported from the streets of St Petersburg to the cultural salons of Paris. The intense generational clash of his era inspired his best-known work, Fathers and Children, while his mother's ruthless cruelty inspired A Sportsman's Sketches, a book that contributed to Czar Alexander II's decision to emancipate the serfs. The influence of the radical critic Belinsky transformed Turgenev from a 'superfluous man' on the fringes of society, to a writer and thinker. His relationships with some of his fellow Russian writers - Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Herzen and Bakunin - were often stormy, but in France he was admired and esteemed by many members of the French literary and musical worlds, including Flaubert, George Sand and Zola. Considered by his peers as a traitor to his class and by the radical left as a woolly liberal, by the end of his life he had won the respect - and even love - of the majority of young Russians seeking a democratic future for their tormented country. The Edge of the Nest illustrates Turgenev's magnificent life, from 1818-1883 and, although fictional, will appeal to fans of biographies, as well as to anyone who enjoys literary fiction and those with an interest in Russian history.