person
Dmitry Rudin
Rudin
also: Rudin
The eloquent but ultimately ineffectual title character of Ivan Turgenev's 1856 novel "Rudin"; Marusya invokes him as a romantic model for her drunken brother's supposed misunderstood nobility.
Reading notes
- Late-Blooming Flowers §12 Turgenev's Rudin
The eloquent but ultimately weak and ineffectual title character of Ivan Turgenev's 1856 novel Rudin -- the archetype of the Russian 'superfluous man,' invoked here ironically as a model for Egorushka's supposed misunderstood nobility.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §12 reading Turgenev's "Rudin," he cannot help asking himself: "Is Rudin a scoundrel or not?"
The title character of Turgenev's 1856 novel "Rudin," cited as the test case for Lvov's reflexive scoundrel-or-not moral sorting -- a literary reference to an existing, independently famous work outside this corpus.