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The Torrents of Spring is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. It is widely held as one Turgenev's greatest novels as well as being highly autobiographical in nature.
Plot Summary The story opens with a middle-aged Dmitry Sanin rummaging through the papers in his study when he comes across a small cross set with garnets, which sends his thoughts back thirty years to 1840. In the summer of 1840, a twenty-two-year-old Sanin, arrives in Frankfurt en route home to Russia from Italy at the culmination of a European tour. During his one-day layover he visits a confectioner’s shop where he is rushed upon by a beautiful young woman who emerges frantic from the back room. She is Gemma Roselli, the daughter of the shop’s proprietress, Leonora Roselli. Gemma implores Sanin to help her younger brother who has passed out and seems to have stopped breathing. Thanks to Sanin’s aid, the boy – whose name is Emilio – emerges from his faint. Grateful for his assistance, Gemma invites Sanin to return to the shop later in the evening to enjoy a cup of chocolate with the family.
The Torrents Of Spring By Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Illustrated edition by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Literature Fiction eBooks
This was the book written by Hemingway for the purpose of getting out of his publishing contract with one publisher so he could contract with Scribner's. If one reads with that knowledge in mind it is even more enjoyable because it is a literary dare and brazen. No holds barred and the author occasionally talks to the reader (!!) in the middle of drama. I laughed out loud more than once and couldn't put this little book down until I finished it.Product details
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The Torrents Of Spring By Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Illustrated edition by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Imagine you are Ernest Hemingway... You are a fairly run-of-the-mill journalist in Chicago and a friend (who has always encouraged you to write) named Sherwood Anderson, convinces you to move to Paris, instead of Rome. He writes you letters to introduce you to some of the brightest shining stars on the scene
You are everybody's darling...
For the next three or four years, you rub elbows with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and finally, Scott Fitzgerald, who becomes one of your closest friends. Although you have published only a few stories of no account and Fitzgerald has written "Gatsby", you feel it is your duty to tell him where he is going wrong in all his writing.
Some of your stories have, and do find a publisher, because of your friend Sherwood Anderson's influence, or your other connections, but you are still polishing your style the way Anderson had suggested, to focus on your strengths, to write your experience.
Then, one day, you have done it! You have written the novel that will change all of writing and wipe away all the tired clichés! You just have to revise it a little, and you start in...
But your friend, Sherwood Anderson has written a new book too. While you are revising your first novel, you read his eighth published work.
That is where it all changes for you.
Over the next 10 days, you write a short book utterly lampooning Anderson's style. Page after page tears Anderson and those like him (James Joyce) apart, in public. You even call him by name in the book, sarcastically.
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This book is that short book.
It is perhaps the cruelest book ever written, and certainly one of the most arrogant. It is so public and so blatant a betrayal of the successful man who saw talent in a young writer, and nurtured him, connected him, promoted him... that it simply boggles the mind and hurts the heart.
It is a book that forms one of the cornerstones of Hemingway's mythos. Hemingway burned all his bridges with its publication. He set himself adrift, alone, on the strength of "The Sun Also Rises" which was not even finished being revised, much less published at the time.
Anderson never recovered from the betrayal. Hemingway went on to dominate publishing for the next thirty years. It was a career built on public opposition and ridicule of nearly every other writer working contemporaneously. It all started with this bold parody of how NOT to write.
The impression I get from this novel is that it is written by an incredibly gifted author whose talents, sadly, have left him. Yet there are flashes of brilliance here and there, and perhaps that's why Turgenev wrote the novel in the first place, perhaps he was overcome with a flash of inspiration that he eventually had to see to the bitter end, just like our 'hero'.
To read the novel in such a meta way would make this a brilliant novel, but after what I thought was a promising start, quickly becomes a bit tedious, empty of real feeling, and of not much consequence.
I think the biggest problem with the novel is that we never really know Sanin. Yes he's very good looking and this has quite the effect on the people around him (young women), and we know he's given to flights of quick passion that keeps the plot moving along, but aside from that he's sort of an empty shell. And of course that is exactly what Turgenev wanted to give us, Sanin is supposed to be a young, handsome, wealthy, and utterly shallow person. However, that does not make for the most interesting character to follow around through every page of a novel. So at the whim of everyone else around him is he that almost nothing really happens aside from total chance (his initial meeting of Gemma, the gust of wind, the meeting of Polozov; all chance).
Yet again, from a meta point of view, Turgenev must have known that this is exactly the story he wanted to tell. He wanted to take a shallow young landowner (one who owned serfs, otherwise known as slaves) and turn him into a fool and a slave. He wanted to turn social convention on its head; to have Maria marry a homosexual so that she can carouse about Europe with her fortune left solely to her from her peasant father. Turgenev was making fun of the young Russian landowners and their wealth. That's why so much of the novel revolves around the theater everything is a performance (and not a very good one) and only the best actors can fool the audience.
However, even with all this subtext, Turgenev just didn't really have his heart in this one. Something was missing; he was an actor reciting his lines well enough, but his elbows were pointed straight to the audience as he spoke and the audience wished they were somewhere else.
And what of this ending? To America? After all that time? It's an interesting ending, I think, but we just don't know and feel attached to Sanin well enough to even care, let alone understand why after 30 years of apathy (money making apathy to be sure, but apathy none-the-less) why he'd run off to America to see Maria. Does he think he still has his looks? Is that what the photograph of Maria's daughter was hinting at? Did he think he could buy his way into favor? Seems to be the real novel should start at this point and follow him across the ocean and see what happens.
Oh well, I really wanted to love this novel, but I don't. It's good, for sure, but nothing very special aside from a few brilliant moments and the excellent writing. To bad too because this could have been quite the masterpiece (and there IS plenty of meat to chew on here), but Turgenev just didn't have his heart in it. 'Cele ne ture pas a consequence' indeed.
This was the book written by Hemingway for the purpose of getting out of his publishing contract with one publisher so he could contract with Scribner's. If one reads with that knowledge in mind it is even more enjoyable because it is a literary dare and brazen. No holds barred and the author occasionally talks to the reader (!!) in the middle of drama. I laughed out loud more than once and couldn't put this little book down until I finished it.
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