>Started my first Turgenev today - A Hunter's Sketches

>>7586656
Fathers and Sons is pretty much second tier /lit/-core

That being said I agree

“Je ne suis jamais plus sérieux, madame, que quand je dis des bêtises.” is one of my all time favourite quotations

What translation

Turgenev is good. He writes interesting, enjoyable stories. He just lacks a certain element of transcendence beyond his media. He writes books. He writes good ones. But are they really the sorts you think of twenty years down the line?

>>7586656
how long did it take you to learn russian?

underrated author, not as annoying as tolstoy or dostoyevsky, more... "humane". used to be friends with flaubert.