Ivan Turgenev online resources
By Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1879)
Picture source
BIOGRAPHY
Wikipedia entry
ONLINE WORKS
Most online works use translations by Constance Garnett
Works at Google Books or
Project Gutenberg
Audio works available at LibriVox
ADDITIONAL (most of my previous links are now dead, so the list has shortened considerably)
An essay by Henry James on Turgenev:
1903 essay
A letter by Joseph Conrad on Turgenev and a study to be published by Edward Garnett (from Chapter 9):
“For only think! Every gift has been heaped on his cradle: absolute sanity and the deepest sensibility, the clearest vision and the quickest responsiveness, penetrating insight and unfailing generosity of judgment, an exquisite perception of the visible world and an unerring instinct for the significant, for the essential in the life of men and women, the clearest mind, the warmest heart, the largest sympathy–and all that in perfect measure. There’s enough there to ruin the prospects of any writer.”
Turgenev.org.ru, which has photos/paintings along with a biography and his works (in English and Russina)
An essay on Willa Cather, Ivan Turgenev, and the Novel of Character by Richard Harris from the Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska
Courtesy of Richard Peace, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol comes The Novels of Turgenev: Symbols and Emblems
One of my favorite current writers, the pseudonymous Theodore Dalrymple, has an article titled How—-and How Not—-to Love Mankind, a look at Turgenev and Karl Marx:
“But for all their similarities of education and experience, the quality of each man’s compassion could not have been more different: for while one’s, rooted in the suffering of individuals, was real, the other’s, abstract and general, was not.”
LauraBeth
Thank you for the links you've provided here. I look forward to exploring them. I happened to come across your page while looking for Joseph Conrad's essay on Turgenev. Do you have any suggestions as to where I might find this? Ty!
Dwight
LauraBeth, I'm not sure where you might find a copy of it online. JSTOR is a possibility. I'd recommend making use of a librarian for that. And I'd love to add a link here if you find one! Best of luck on that…I hope you can find it!