Tag: Ivan Turgenev

  • The Human Condition According to Turgenev

    The Human Condition According to Turgenev

    By Bergotte Ivan Turgenev is the poet of the moment that has already passed. His novels and stories are pervaded by a melancholy so precise and so gracefully carried that it takes time to recognise it as a philosophical position rather than a temperamental one. But it is a position: the claim that the human…