Faust: New Translation

ISBN-13: 9781847492180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str.

Ivan Turgenev;Hugh Aplin

Opis

Alesser-known novella by one of the great masters of Russian literature, now available to English readers ina lucid translation, is presented with "Yakov Pasynkov," another story exploring the nature of love and human relationsIn a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera's eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but also a world of unbridled feelings and tempestuous passions, which can only shatter the comfort and safety of her existence and force her to set off on a journey of spiritual awakening."

Recenzje

These two translations of Ivan Turgenev's earliest long fiction are a welcome sign of renewed interest in Russia's least-appreciated great nineteenth century novelist... In Yakov Pasynkov and Faust, Turgenev takes tragic irony in new directions. TLS

O autorze

Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His masterpiece, Fathers and Children, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.