Turgenev: Asya / Edition 1

by Ivan Turgenev, F.G. Gregory, Joe Andrew

Overview

Turgenev's povest' (or novella) Asya, of 1858, has a Rhineland setting. Asya, the illegitimate daughter of a Russian landowner, is travelling abroad with her half-brother. The narrator falls in love with her, but cannot bring himself to propose marriage until it is too late. Asya has gone. The narrative stance here struck by Turgenev - one of remorseful recollection - renders Asya one of his most poignant tales. It immediately occasioned a lively debate among contemporary Russian critics: over 'weak' as against 'positive' heroes, and the position of the intellectual vis à vis the people. At a more submerged level of the tale, the heroine's 'narrative' has until recently tended to be overlooked.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853992957
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Russian Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.50(d)