Word: turgenev
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...have a clue. I really don't. I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact. I mean, people come up and tell me "the book changed my life," but I don't know...
...early Flaubert, whose lightness of touch he admiringly notes in Madame Bovary, but whose later heavy-handedness (in works such as Salammbô) Naipaul describes with rather laborious detail himself. So who does Naipaul like? Maupassant, Twain and "the Russians (with the exception of Turgenev...
...club for Slavophiles?intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud chapters of his never-to-be-completed novel, Dead Souls...
...club for Slavophiles - intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud chapters of his never-to-be-completed novel, Dead Souls. Now a museum, Abramtsevo offers a less combative experience to visitors...
...Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl, Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a tonic cynicism in Simon Gray's Butley, a charming naivete in Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Bates' brilliance was too often taken for granted. His absence leaves a profound hole in our theater and film life...