Turgenev

Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen.

He said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”

Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.

We read of Turgenev who was arrested and exiled to his distant estates for writing a brief obituary notice of Gogol.

Now the facts are that no one was of greater use to Herzen the arch-revolutionist and his thundering Kolokol, than Turgenev.

The publication of the book marks the final rupture between Turgenev and the party of Young Russia.

Smoke was first published in 1867, several years after Turgenev had fixed his home in Baden, with his friends the Viardots.

Or, perhaps, Turgenev was forgiven for it when he was in his grave, a spot where forgiveness flowers to a late perfection.