Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace
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Joe Andrew, Derek Offord, and Robert Reid, eds. Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, vol. 49. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. 372 pp. $99.00, paper.Turgenev and Russian Culture is Festschrift in honour of Richard Peace, containing eighteen essays, primarily by British Slavists. The book is bracketed by thoughtful biography of Peace, in which Derek Offord provides information about formative role Peace played in establishment of modern British Slav[on]ic studies, and by bibliography of Peace's works, spanning more than forty years (and well into retirement). Interestingly, although it was Dostoevskii to whom Peace most sustained attention (p. 5), it is Turgenev who occupies central place in this volume. Joe Andrew addresses this phenomenon in his introduction. Noting that Turgenev was some time ago shunted aside by his great contemporaries, Dostoevskii and Tolstoi, but adding that Russian classical literature in general now faces something like crisis (p. 7), Andrew surveys views expressed in recent English-language studies devoted to Turgenev. These stress value of his reasonableness as perhaps actually more relevant today than archaism of Tolstoi or apocalypticism of Dostoevskii, and suggest that absence of overt tendentiousness should not obscure existential questions that underpin Turgenev's fiction. The essays themselves cover broad range of works and themes and exhibit considerable diversity of approaches.Anthony Briggs examines evidence for persistent assertion of link between Pushkin's Tsygany and Bizet's opera Carmen (Did Carmen really come from Russia [with little help from Turgenev]?). The evidence includes some direct quotations from Merimee's translation of Pushkin poem and fact that Zemfira-Aleko relationship closely reflects relationship in opera, while departing sharply from Merimee's story.In Death and Maiden Joe Andrew provides feminist reading of Turgenev's story Asia. Andrew describes narrator as self-centred constructor of his own narrative in which Asia (both protagonist and story) operates in an erotic, misogynist framework that renders her a collection of projections of male fantasy, (p. 42) Other that men must contain. As result, central relationship in story is that between narrator and Asia's half-brother, Gagin, and it is through this masculine bond, which destroys normal male-female relationships, that story brilliantly deconstructs patriarchal world (p. 48).The late Boris Christa 's analysis of semiotic value of vestimentary markers -which Christa showed in 1983 essay was particularly well-developed in Ottsy i deli-indicates that device was already present in Rudin, where Turgenev also used clothes as an effective method of characterization, often more accurate reflection of true nature of protagonist than more standard methods.Leon Burnett explores recurring mythological image of sphinx in Turgenev's work. Exploiting ambiguity of Russian word zagadka (both riddle with solution and an enigma without an explanation), Turgenev created symbolic nexus, that combined the riddle of Oedipus and enigma of Isis and in which three distinct concerns - aura of mysterious, image of woman and definition of Russia coalesce (p. 120).Taking as his starting point observation that analyses of Turgenev's Zapiski okhotnika cannot even agree on what this seminal work is really about, or how, and even if, it is structurally coherent, Robert Reid applies concepts developed by C. S. Peirce to various elements (themes, narrator, setting, character, as well as hunting itself) of cycle. His analysis confirms centrality of Russia itself, unique human characters, and aesthetic beauty in variety of manifestations as key components of Turgenev's collection of stories. …
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