Ivan Turgenev

Nella grande Russia conservatrice e patriarcale dei latifondi e dei primi timidi moti liberali, il rapporto conflittuale tra tradizione e rinnovamento...

Nel bel mezzo di un'accesa discussione sull'esistenza del soprannaturale...

Sullo sfondo delle vaste e silenziose campagne della Russia rurale, il ritorno a casa di due giovani laureati, Arkadij e l'enigmatico Bazarov, innesca una tempesta destinata a scuotere le fondamenta di un intero mondo.

Padri e figli, del 1862, il capolavoro di Turgenev, è considerato da molti come una delle creazioni meglio riuscite della novellistica dell'ottocento, anche se i critici russi contemporanei non lo apprezzarono....

Dalla dolcezza di un'estate nella campagna russa nella prima metà del XIX secolo alla cupa atmosfera di intrigo e magia della corte di...

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Anton Checov a Kipling...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition....

Father and Children by Ivan Turgenev is a novel that explores the ideological conflict between the older generation of Russian nobility and the younger...

Twenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlords A Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece, is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent...

Nine classic works by the Russian literary giant, adapted for BBC Radio Ivan Turgenev stands alongside Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as one of the three great Russian novelists of the 19th century. He was also a consummate short story writer, poet and playwright, and the first Russian author to become...

The narrator is under the spell of Ellis - a female vampire - who takes him on series of flights to different places, such as Paris, St. Petersburg and the Isle of Wight. At these places, he becomes a witness to various incidents and becomes involves in different situations. Why was the narrator...

At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida....

Remanso de paz es una de las obras capitales del autor Iván Turguénev. En ella, el autor hace gala de los temas que acompañarán buena parte de su obra en la literatura y el teatro: el costumbrismo centrado en la vida rural de la Rusia de su época, la servidumbre del populacho, la...

Novela de corte romántico y trágico del autor Iván Turguénev, Lluvia de primavera nos lleva a acompañar a un terrateniente ruso a la ciudad de Frankfurt, donde se enamorará perdidamente de una chica de clase modesta. Tras conquistarla, renunciará a su fortuna por estar a su lado. Sin...

Arguably Turgenev's greatest work and certainly one of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons incited protests from all branches of Russian society....

When young Russian aristocrat Dimitri Sanin, on his way home from Italy, enters a patisserie in Frankfurt, he little dreams it will alter the course of his entire life....

Ivan Turgenev’s First Love follows a sixteen-year-old boy’s infatuation with an older princess who has moved in next door...

One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction...

Written by one of Russia’s literary masters, Smoke is both a poignant love story and a brilliant socio-political study. Marked with a barbed wit and a visionary modernism, it became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky. On the brink of marriage, Grigorii...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks...