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Very nice book: D. shows how good it can be in dealing with humorous subjects.
To be read, absolutely.

This is a somehow fascinating book, that had an great success when published. "Political interpretations" of this book exist and A. was exiled, like Andreyev and many others. But the characters are strongly constructed, the prose is excellent and the underlying reflexions hold still now. Two limits I found: the excess of landscape descriptions (where A. is a real master) and the urgency of creating a concluded sense within the limits of some hundred pages; in practice too many suicides. This… (more)

This is a somehow fascinating book, that had an great success when published. "Political interpretations" of this book exist and A. was exiled, like Andreyev and many others. But the characters are strongly constructed, the prose is excellent and the underlying reflexions hold still now. Two limits I found: the excess of landscape descriptions (where A. is a real master) and the urgency of creating a concluded sense within the limits of some hundred pages; in practice too many suicides. This criticism can look a little bid stupid, but it creates an unpleasant semsation towards the end of the novel. Russian literature is always a great one.

Excellent short novel evidently based on young Turgenev's experience: the characters of mother and father, as described in the novel, are similar to Turgeniev parent's from many points of view.
Very interesting for those interested in the author's biography