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A Nest of Gentlefolk (Dvoryanskoe gnezdo)
A Nest of Gentlefolk
also: Дворянское гнездо
Ivan Turgenev's 1859 novel of a disillusioned landowner's return to a provincial estate, serialized in The Contemporary and rediscovered by Shmakhin near the story's end.
Reading notes
- Hopeless (A Sketch) §102 "A Nest of Gentlefolk"
Ivan Turgenev's 1859 novel of a disillusioned landowner's return to his provincial estate -- serialized in that very issue of The Contemporary, and, in a piece of quiet irony, a story about the same idle gentry ennui Shmakhin is himself drowning in.
- The Double Bass and the Flute §19 A Nest of Gentlefolk
Turgenev's 1859 novel, whose famous garden scene between Lavretsky and Liza was widely regarded as a high point of Russian romantic prose; the double bass's crude paraphrase ("the minx puts on airs") is the story's central joke about philistine misreading of literature.