Can someone summarize or explain his writing style to me briefly?

A French realist embodied by Russian culture.

>>7891723

Alright I appreciate that, I did some more reading up on it all, thanks m8. I'll keep it in mind when reading him. The writing seems very simple throughout so far, i'm halfway through fathers and sons. I wonder if it's the translation or just his style

Turgenev was a great prose stylist. Who is the translator?

>>7891742

Richard Freeborn, its the oxford classics translation.

Maybe i'm just inept in judging the prose.

>>7891747
Try the Peter Carson Penguin translation.

>>7891699
Can someone tell me why people consider Turgenev as great stylist, as >>7891742 points out? I've heard this praise many times but when I read Fathers and Sons I found the writing bland compared to Tolstoy.

>>7891735
Why are you so interested in the prose style? Especially in a translation.

The literary style (realism) + the theme (generational gap + superfluous men) is what's interesting about it.

>>7891922

I'm no major critic, I just have gotten into reading more the past couple of months and want to take a somewhat more "serious" approach to the books and understand the nuances of every author i read, and get a better feel of it.

I just came off the back of reading middlemarch so I can't help but make comparisons to it in the back of my head even though that's probably unfair, i found it to be so well written so I was impressed by it.

I appreciate all the answers though, it'll help me see what to look at better and appreciate in it. I did quite like the honest look at the fathers thoughts of getting old and the brothers struggling to come with terms with the new generation.

>>7891959
Read Turgenev's chapter on Nabokov's Lectures on Russian Literature (2002), have fun.