Turgenev Art, Ideology and Legacy Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Volume LVI Edited by J.J. van Baak R. Grübel A.G.F. van Holk W.G. Weststeijn Turgenev Art, Ideology and Legacy Edited by Robert Reid and Joe Andrew Amsterdam - New York, NY 2010 Cover design: Aart Jan Bergshoeff The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-3147-0 E-Book ISBN: 978-90-420-3148-7 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2010 Printed in the Netherlands Contents Preface vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Turgenev: Art, Ideology and Legacy ROBERT REID 1 I Turgenev’s Art 1 Hidden Spaces in Turgenev’s Short Prose: What They Conceal and What They Show IRENE MASING-DELIC 23 2 ‘So Many Foreign and Useless Words!’: Ivan Turgenev’s Poetics of Negation STEVEN BRETT SHAKLAN 41 3 Turgenev-Bricoleur: Observations on the World of Turgenev’s Sketches from a Hunter’s Album JOOST VAN BAAK 61 4 First Love, but not First Lover: Turgenev’s Poetics of Unoriginality SANDER BROUWER 87 5 Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Language of Things in Fathers and Sons ERICA SIEGEL 107 6 The Description of the Appearance of Characters in Turgenev’s Novels (in particular Fathers and Sons) WILLEM G. WESTSTEIJN 123 II Turgenev’s Ideology 7 Turgenev’s Representation of the ‘New People’ KATHRYN AMBROSE 139 8 No Smoke without a Bit of Fire RICHARD FREEBORN 157 9 Turgenev and the ‘Jewish Question’ ELENA KATZ 169 10 Turgenev Finds a Home in Russia Abroad GRETA SLOBIN 189 III Turgenev’s Legacy 11 Turgenev as Institution: Sketches from a Hunter’s Album in Tolstoi’s Early Aesthetics JUSTIN WEIR 219 12 A Wrong Kind of Love - A Teacher of Sex on a Teacher of Love: Vasilii Rozanov on Turgenev and Viardot HENRIETTA MONDRY 237 13 After Death, the Movie (1915) - Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer and the Aesthetics of Morbidity OTTO BOELE 253 14 Performing Femininity in an Age of Change: Evgenii Bauer, Ivan Turgenev and the Legend of Evlaliia Kadmina RACHEL MORLEY 269 15 Turgenev’s Antipodean Echoes: Robert Dessaix and his Russian Mentor KEVIN WINDLE and ROSH IRELAND 317 16 Ivan Sergeev, Fathers and Sons: The Phenomenon of the Nouveau-Russian Novel OLGA SOBOLEVA and POGOS SAIADIAN 329 Preface The chapters in the present volume originate from papers given at an international conference on Turgenev - ‘Turgenev and His Contemporaries’ - held under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle at Mansfield College, Oxford from 11-13 September 2006. The editors warmly thank the participants in that conference for their contributions and for their co-operation in preparing this work for publication. The chapters are grouped thematically. Chapters 1-6 concern aspects of Turgenev’s art, particularly his poetics, and, apart from the first two chapters on general themes, are ordered according to the chronology of the works dealt with. Chapters 7-10 centre on Turgenev’s ideology in the broadest sense: the politics of his novels, his engagement with contemporary issues and his Western orientation. These are ordered alphabetically according to author. Chapters 11-16 focus on Turgenev’s legacy - each examines instances of his impact and influence on a range of artists and the order is chronological: Tolstoi, Rozanov, the film director Evgenii Bauer, the Australian writer Robert Dessaix and the creators of the ‘Nouveau-Russian novel’. Titles of well-known Russian works have been given in established English translation only; for lesser known works the cyrillic original has also been supplied at first mention. Quotations from Turgenev and other writers are given in English translation except where reference to the original was considered essential. Citation of Russian titles in the notes is via transliteration, the system used being that of the Library of Congress without diacritics. Notes on Contributors Kathryn Ambrose Kathryn Ambrose was recently awarded her PhD at Keele University for her thesis on the ‘woman question’ in mid-to late-nineteenth-century Russian, German and English literatures. Her thesis seeks to provide a revisionist reading of the popular approach in feminist criticism of the semiotics of space, by looking instead at the semiotics of barriers. She has a first-class degree in English and German, and worked as a secondary school teacher for four years before returning to postgraduate study in 2005. She gained a Masters in Research degree in Russian, with distinction, in 2006. Joe Andrew Joe Andrew’s research concentrates on nineteenth-century Russian literature and he is the author of Writers and Society During the Rise of Russian Realism (Macmillan, 1980) and Writers and Society During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Macmillan, 1982). He also has an international reputation as a leading specialist in issues of gender in Russian literature; publications in this field include Women in Russian Literature 1780-1863 (Macmillan, 1988), Narrative and Desire in Russian Literature 1822-49: The Feminine and the Masculine (Macmillan, 1993) and Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Literature 1846-1903 (Rodopi, 2007). Otto Boele Otto Boele teaches Russian literature and film at the University of Leiden. He is the author of The North in Russian Romantic Literature (Rodopi, 1996) and Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of Mikhail Artsybahsev’s ‘Sanin’ (Wisconsin UP, 2009). His articles have appeared in Russian Literature, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie and Essays in Poetics. Sander Brouwer Sander Brouwer is Assistant Professor of Russian literature at The University of Groningen, Netherlands. His recent publications include Wiener slawistischer Almanach, LIV, 2004 (Òåëî, äóõ è äóøà â ðóññêîé ëèòåðàòóðå è êóëüòóðå: Leib, Geist und Seele in der rusischen Literatur und Kultur); Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, September 10-16, 2008: xTurgenev: Art, Ideology and Legacy Literature (Rodopi, 2008); ‘Çàìå÷àíèÿ î òåìå ñàìîçâàí÷åñòâà â Áåñàõ Äîñòîåâñêîãî’ in Literature and Beyond: Festschrift for Willem G. Weststeijn (Pegasus, 2008); ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat-Author? Viktor Pelevin’s Empire V’ in Brouwer, ed. (see above) 2008. Richard Freeborn Richard Freeborn is an internationally renowned specialist on nineteenth- century Russian literature. He was Chair of Russian Studies at Manchester from 1965-7 and Professor of Russian Literature at The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London from 1967-1988. His works include studies of Turgenev, the nineteenth-century Russian novel, the Russian revolutionary novel, Dostoevskii and Belinskii, as well as many contributions to learned studies and journals. He has also written four novels. Rosh Ireland Rosh Ireland is Visiting Fellow in the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University, where he was formerly Senior Lecturer in Russian. Elena Katz Elena Katz is a researcher in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University where she is currently working on the AHRC-funded project ‘Penality and the Social Construction of Gender in Post-Soviet Russia: the Impact on Prisoners’ Relatives of Their Encounters with Penal Russia’. Her research interests focus on perceptions of the ethnic, social, national and cultural ‘other’ in Russian literature and culture. She is the author of Neither with Them, Nor without Them. The Russian Writer and the Jew in the Age of Realism (Syracuse UP, 2008). Irene Masing-Delic Irene Masing-Delic took her degrees at the Universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. Her career has included appointments at the Australian National University, the University of the Witwatersrand, Friedrich- Alexander University at Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures. She is the author of Abolishing Death: Salvation Myth