Dream Tales and Prose Poems… Ivan Turgenev. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garn
Dream Tales and Prose Poems… Ivan Turgenev. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1897. First edition of this translation. Turgenev’s adulation of the Russian peasantry is reflected in his horror fiction, which is laced with Russian folklore and supernaturalism and with compassionate portraits of the desperately poor. Yet his warmhearted storytelling ambiance is a foil for a horror vision that is often cold and severe … Turgenev’s pessimistic vision of innocence destroyed by unstoppable evil echoes the late-nineteenth-century English tradition of Le Fanu, Machen, and Hardy. -- source link
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