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Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer whose work is exemplary of Russian Realism. A student of Hegel, Turgenev’s political views and writing were heavily influenced by the Age of Enlightenment. Among his most recognized works are the classic Fathers and Sons, A Sportsman’s Sketches, and A Month in the Country. Turgenev is today recognized for his artistic purity, which influenced writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Turgenev died in 1883, and is credited with returning Leo Tolstoy to writing as the result of his death-bed plea.
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IVAN TURGENEV
VOLUME 10 OF 53
Acia
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By Delphi Classics, 2015
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‘Acia’
Ivan Turgenev: Parts Edition (in 53 parts)
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IVAN TURGENEV
IN 53 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Novels
1, Rudin
2, A House of Gentlefolk
3, On the Eve
4, Fathers and Sons
5, Smoke
6, Virgin Soil
The Novellas
7, The Diary of a Superfluous Man
8, Yakov Pasinkov
9, Faust
10, Acia
11, First Love
12, A Lear of the Steppes
13, Torrents of Spring
14, The Song of Triumphant Love
15, Clara Militch
16, Phantoms
17, The Dream
The Short Stories
18, A Sportsman’s Sketches
19, A Tour in the Forest
20, Andrei Kolosov
21, A Correspondence
22, The District Doctor
23, Mumu
24, The Jew
25, An Unhappy Girl
26, The Duellist
27, Three Portraits
28, Enough
29, A Desperate Character
30, A Strange Story
31, Punin and Baburin
32, Old Portraits
33, The Brigadier
34, Pyetushkov
35, Knock, Knock, Knock
36, The Inn
37, Lieutenant Yergunov’s Story
38, The Dog
39, The Watch
40, The Rendezvous
41, A Reckless Character
42, Father Alexyéi’s Story
43, Poems in Prose
The Plays
44, A Month in the Country
45, A Provincial Lady
46, A Poor Gentleman
47, Careless
48, Broke
49, Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks
50, The Family Charge
51, The Bachelor
The Criticism
52, The Criticism
The Biography
53, Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett
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Acia
Translated by Constance Garnett, 1899
CONTENTS
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I
AT that time I was five - and - twenty, began N. N., - - it was in days long past, as you perceive. I had only just gained my freedom and gone abroad, not to finish my education,
as the phrase was in those days; I simply wanted to have a look at God’s world. I was young, and in good health and spirits, and had plenty of money. Troubles had not yet had time to gather about me. I existed without thought, did as I liked, lived like the lilies of the field, in fact. It never occurred to me in those days that man is not a plant, and cannot go on living like one for long. Youth will eat gilt gingerbread and fancy it’s daily bread too; but the time comes when you’re in want of dry bread even. There’s no need to go into that, though.
I travelled without any sort of aim, without a plan; I stopped wherever I liked the place, and went on again directly I felt a desire to see new faces - - faces, nothing else. I was interested in people exclusively; I hated famous monuments and museums of curiosities, the very sight of a guide produced in me a sense of weariness and anger; I was almost driven crazy in the Dresden Grüne - Gewölbe.
Nature affected me extremely, but I did not care for the so - called beauties of nature, extraordinary mountains, precipices, and waterfalls; I did not like nature to obtrude, to force itself upon me. But faces, living human faces - - people’s talk, and gesture, and laughter - - that was what was absolutely necessary to me. In a crowd I always had a special feeling of ease and comfort. I enjoyed going where others went, shouting when others shouted, and at the same time I liked to look at the others shouting. It amused me to watch people. . . though I didn’t even watch them - - I simply stared at them with a sort of delighted, ever - eager curiosity. But I am diverging again.
And so twenty years ago I was staying in the little German town Z., on the left bank of the Rhine. I was seeking solitude; I had just been stabbed to the heart by a young widow, with whom I had made acquaintance at a watering - place. She was very pretty and clever, and flirted with every one - - with me, too, poor sinner. At first she had positively encouraged me, but later on she cruelly wounded my feelings, sacrificing me for a red - faced Bavarian lieutenant. It must be owned, the wound to my heart was not a very deep one; but