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A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts

by Ivan Turgenev, Isaiah Berlin
A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts
A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts

Tragicomic exploration of love's entangling triangle.

If you're intrigued by the intricacies of love and human emotion, Turgenev's play "A Month in the Country" could be a captivating read. The playwright's understanding of psychology breathes life into a classic scenario, making it fresh and intricately tragicomic. As you dive into the turmoil of love's calamities and the bitter-sweet entanglements, you'll appreciate the eloquence with which Turgenev captures the complexities of the heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

A Month in the Country: A Comedy in Five Acts

by Ivan Turgenev, Isaiah Berlin
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ISBN: 9780670487059
Authors: Ivan Turgenev, Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date of Publication: 1982-02-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Romance, Drama
Related Topics: Classics, Theatre
Goodreads rating: 3.75
(rated by 743 readers)

Description

"In my opinion ...every love, happy as well as unhappy, is real disaster when you give yourself over to it entirely." This heart-felt sentiment expressed by Turgenev's unfortunate character, Rakitin, sums up the central predicament of this, Turgenev's most celebrated play, completed in 1850 during the period of his extensive travels abroad. Probably drawn from his experiences of frustration and unhappiness at the hands of the famous Pauline Viardot, "A Month in the Country" explores the complexities of that most universal of themes, the eternal love triangle, and transforms what could be termed an almost hackneyed subject into a brilliant tragi-comedy. With his fresh and subtle play of paradox and a new psychological penetration into character that anticipates the theatre of Chekhov, Turgenev creates a dramatic "month" which surely realizes Henry James' evaluation of the writer as "beautiful genius".
 

Tragicomic exploration of love's entangling triangle.

If you're intrigued by the intricacies of love and human emotion, Turgenev's play "A Month in the Country" could be a captivating read. The playwright's understanding of psychology breathes life into a classic scenario, making it fresh and intricately tragicomic. As you dive into the turmoil of love's calamities and the bitter-sweet entanglements, you'll appreciate the eloquence with which Turgenev captures the complexities of the heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.