![]() Spring Torrents, published in 1872, is short–only 176 pages in my Penguin Classics edition, and it’s superb quintessential Turgenev. Bitter regret and love go hand in hand in Turgenev’s fiction. Perhaps a Turgenev character will lose love from a failure to commit or perhaps he will discover that the woman has another game even as he’s drawn in deeper and deeper. ![]() ![]() Turgenev (1818-1883), one of the giants of 19th century Russian literature, is the master at creating fictional male characters who engage in relationships with women only to experience the destructive nature of passion.
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