Memoirs of a Hunter by Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev's first major publication, Memoirs of a Hunter is a series of tales
based largely on the author's own experiences while hunting on his mother's
estate of Spasskoye, where he became aware of the iniquities of the system
of serfdom and the privations and indignities suffered by the Russian
peasantry. Told from the perspective of a dispassionate, observing narrator,
the stories in this volume are concerned with the relationship between
landowner and labourer, presenting a vivid and moving portrait of life in the
era before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 - a watershed whose advent
some believe was hastened by Turgenev's sympathetic depiction of the
ordinary folk of rural Russia.
Originally published individually in the St Petersburg journal Sovremennik
before appearing as a single volume in 1852, and presented here in a
masterful new translation by Michael Pursglove, this landmark collection
established the literary reputation of the author, who considered it his most
significant contribution to Russian literature, and is universally regarded as a
milestone in the Russian realist tradition.

Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks
as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His masterpiece, Fathers
and Children, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth
century.

Alma Books
On Sale: Sep 26/23
5.08 x 7.79 • 416 pages
9781847499042 • $16.00 • pb
Fiction / Classics