Summary
Ivan Turgenjev: First Love
"First Love" is an autobiographical novel. Turgenev writes about perhaps the greatest love in his life, and above all about his youth, when everything seems possible...
"It was a strange, feverish time, some chaos, in which, as in a whirlwind, swirled feelings, thoughts, doubts, hopes, joys and suffering; I was afraid to look into myself, if a sixteen-year-old young man can even look into himself..."
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev is one of the greatest Russian and world writers of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1818 in the Orel Governorate. His noble origin and rich family enabled him to acquire a good education: he was educated at universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin. The most famous novels are "Ruđin" (1857), "Noble Nest" (1859), "Fathers and Children" (1862)... He died in 1883 in Bužival, France.
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