turgenev in English

noun

family name; Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian writer of novels and playwright

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1. He has read and appreciated Jack London, William Faulkner, Turgenev, Prosper Merimee, etc.

2. The hero is a nihilist (a term first used by Turgenev), who is convinced that the whole social order has nothing in it worth preserving.

3. Her novel written to the background of revolutionary war, describing the last months of an Anglo-Irish landed family at their home in Danielstown, The Last September (1929), became for O'Faolain the novel 'to solve all my problems by demonstrating that one actually could be a Turgenev when writing in holy, simple, pietistic, peasant, Bogtrotting, jansenistic, lower lower middle-class