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Title: Spring Torrents (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Leonard Schapiro ISBN: 0-14-044369-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The "Torrent" Feelings That "Spring" From Love
Comment: I hope the amount of reviews posted here is not a reflection of how many people have actually read this novel. That would really be a shame.
I've always felt Turgenev doesn't get the wide audience he deserves. He's one of my all time favorite authors. My favorite piece of work has to be "First Love". An emotional recalling of what first love is all about. That novel captured so many sincere emotions, so many things I could connect with and here with "Spring Torrents" Turgenev is spinning the same magic. It's setting up characters and situations we can relate to. It then causes us to think back to our own memories.
Turgenev was a master. People need to become more familiar with his work. Those who don't not read his stories are missing out on tender, beautifully written, intelligent works of art.
If you enjoy this book buy "First Love", "A Month in the Country", and the extremely popular "Fathers and Son".
Bottom-line:A novel that causes us to relive our past (or maybe current) situations dealing with love. Resembles the genuis of his story "First Love". Well worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Turgenev ... take me away!
Comment: A marvelous tale of love's labors lost, this novella encapsulates the Russian spirit in a lighthearted and enjoyable fashion (despite its characteristic tragic outcome ... this is Russian literature, after all) that reads like a dream. One of the few books I forced myself to intentionally prolong the reading of (not wanting the pleasure to end), it is (at the same time) a book I hated to put down. Spirited like Lermontov, poetic like Pushkin, and wry like Bulgakov, this is a short tale of summer love that teaches volumes about the follies of (male) human nature. If the struggle of the main character portrayed by John Cusack in "High Fidelity" rang true with you, this is a book with a life lesson you should not miss.
Rating: 4
Summary: Flaubert for Russians
Comment: 'Spring Torrents', albeit a romantic tragedy, is infused withcomic elements at the will of an omnicient narrator, a style similarto yet distinct from Turgenev's friend Flaubert. What makes Turgenev's craft so brilliant is his ability to make us weep at the misfortunes of Dimitry Sanin yet not without reproval of Sanin's actions. Whereas Sanin is the protagonist of the novel, he also plays the antagonist of his own moral degeneration in the pursuit of love. 'Spring Torrents' is not as didactic as Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons' which employs little subtlety in criticizing Russian gentry. This can be a welcome relief for the reader lacking familiarity with Russian Revolution; consequently, the book is very engaging and reads quicker than some of Turgenev's more political works, forgiving the moments that we are forced to pause, mulling over his beautifully ordinary prose, a graceful verse in German, or a breath-taking allusion to Virgil's Aeneid. If you are a man it will change you; if you are a woman it will change the way you look at men and their infinite vulnerabilities.
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Title: Home of the Gentry (The Penguin Classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn ISBN: 0140442243 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1970 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rudin by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn ISBN: 0140443045 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Smoke by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Garnett, Edward Garnett ISBN: 188598300X Publisher: Turtle Point Pr Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Virgin Soil (New York Review Books Classics) by Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Hobson ISBN: 0940322455 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: First Love and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn ISBN: 0192836897 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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