Stories of Peaceful Silence-Volume 2

Ergin Altay translation,
Foreword by Charles Whibley
Afterword by Nina Brodiansky
Author and period chronology, with visuals about the book.

Peaceful Silence is a compilation of distinguished works of the period when Turgenev crossed the threshold in storytelling by switching from romanticism to realism in prose.

In the early 1850s, Turgenev, influenced by the famous critic Belinsky's defense of sociological realism in literature, began writing his realistic stories containing realistic portraits of Russian life. Turgenev, who created unforgettable characters in his stories that dealt with popular themes of the period such as the beauty of falling in love suddenly, the dashing of love hopes, the gap between dreams and reality, mazurka and duel, dissolving family ties, the feeling of nostalgia caused by the Russian countryside, was one of the "new Russian writers" of the 1850s and 1860s. It engraves "human" in the memory of world literature. Stories that have deeply influenced countless generations from the master of modern storytelling...

“The musical flow in Turgenev's stories is encountered in very few writers in 19th century Russian literature.”

- Vladimir Nabokov -

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition