![]() ![]() Zinaida, however, though we never get the novel from her point of view, I felt much closer to. I can't blame Turgenev since we have to consider when the novel was written, but still it's an element of human nature that is important. Had this been a slightly more modern novel - say written in the 1910's or 20's - there might have been a needed sexual undercurrent that is sorely missing here. I understand he was well bred and that his manners contrast beautifully with the situation of his love, but even when he was most mad, in the garden at midnight, I never really felt like I was with him. Not because I didn't share any of his experiences - what young man hasn't - but there was a strange formality in him that seemed at odds with his age. I have to admit to not feeling as close to Vladimir as I would have liked. ![]() The novel speaks to a greater need for people to live, at all costs and at any price, no matter the amount of pain it inflicts. ![]() The final image of the novel, of the old lady in rags and dying on a hard floor with a sack under her head as she fights to stay alive despite a lifetime of misery gives the novel a greater perspective than just a young man sadly in love with a woman he won't have. ![]()
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