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2 - Chapters VI - IX
| Content Provider | Librivox |
|---|---|
| Author | Turgenev, Ivan |
| Abstract | The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." (Summary by Martin Geeson) |
| Related Links | http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9911 http://www.archive.org/details/first_love_mg_librivox |
| File Format | MP2 / MPA / MP3 |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | First Love |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | general fiction published 1800 -1900 |
| Alternative Title | First Love - 2 - Chapters VI - IX |
| Content Type | Audio |
| Resource Type | Audiobook |
