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Rudin

by Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett (Translator)

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RUDIN (1856) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) tells the story of a character typical to Turgenev -- a "superfluous" man, weak of will, brimming with indecisive frustration -- and yet tormented by ideals. Rudin is made impotent by the dissonance of honoring the older generations while at the same time embracing the new bold epoch of pre-revolutionary Russia. The them ...more

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Published May 29th 2008 by BiblioLife (first published 1856)

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Oct 08, 2010 Ahmad Sharabiani rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, literature, russia, 19th-century, pdf

Рудин = Rudin, Ivan Turgenev
عنوان: رودین؛ نویسنده: ایوان تورگنیف؛ مترجم: آلک قازاریان، مشخصات نشر: مسکو؛ پروگرس، 1344، در 230 ص، چاپ دیگر: تهران، ارغنون، 1361 ؛ در 240 ص؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، اساطیر، 1363، در 230 ص، شابک: 9643310698؛ چاپ دیگر: اساطیر، 1387؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، نگاه، 1389؛ در 224 ص؛ شابک: 9789646390؛ موضوع: کلاسیکهای ادبیات روسی، ادبیات روسیه - قرن 19 م
عنوان: رودین؛ نویسنده: ایوان تورگنیف؛ مترجم: محمدهادی شفیعیها؛ تهران، هرمس، 1379، در 238 ص؛ شابک: ایکس - 964710054؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، ما Рудин = Rudin, Ivan Turgenev
عنوان: رودین؛ نویسنده: ایوان تورگنیف؛ مترجم: آلک قازاریان، مشخصات نشر: مسکو؛ پروگرس، 1344، در 230 ص، چاپ دیگر: تهران، ارغنون، 1361 ؛ در 240 ص؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، اساطیر، 1363، در 230 ص، شابک: 9643310698؛ چاپ دیگر: اساطیر، 1387؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، نگاه، 1389؛ در 224 ص؛ شابک: 9789646390؛ موضوع: کلاسیکهای ادبیات روسی، ادبیات روسیه - قرن 19 م
عنوان: رودین؛ نویسنده: ایوان تورگنیف؛ مترجم: محمدهادی شفیعیها؛ تهران، هرمس، 1379، در 238 ص؛ شابک: ایکس - 964710054؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، ماهی، 1389؛ در 166 ص؛ شابک: 9789642090853؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، علمی فرهنگی، 1394؛ در 238 ص؛ شابک: 9786001215032؛
عنوان: رودین؛ نویسنده: ایوان تورگنیف؛ مترجم: محمدهادی شفیعیها؛ تلخیص: مصطفی جمشیدی؛ تهران، علمی فرهنگی، چاپ دوم 1395، در 238 ص؛ شابک: 9786004363051؛
نسخه ی متن اصلی این اثر در سال 1856 در روسیه منتشر شده، آن روزهای پیش از امروز کتابی بود که خوانده میشد، برای انقلابیون کتاب انقلاب است. تورگنیف بر آن است که رودین را که سمبل نسل جوان آرمان‌پرست سالهای 1830-1840 میلادی روسیه است در این داستان به نمایش درآورد؛ نسلی که دلبسته ی فلسفه‌ ای نسبتاً میان‌ تهی ست. گفتار پایانی،‌ که بعدها افزوده شده، و نویسنده در آن از رودین دفاع و ستایش کرده، شاهد همین سخن است
آغاز متن: صبح آرام تابستانی بود. خورشید اندکی در آسمان صاف بالا آمده بود، ولی هنوز قطرات ژاله بر رخسار دشت و دمن میدرخشید و تلالو خاصی داشت. نسیم با طراوت عطرآگینی از جلگه های بیدار شده میوزید. پرنده های کوچک سحرخیز، در میان جنگلی که هنوز مرطوب و آرام بود، با وجد و نشاط چهچهه میزدند. ... پایان نقل
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Aug 10, 2016 Bryn Hammond rated it really liked it

Shelves: novelists-or-shorts

I was and remain in love with Turgenev’s short novels of – not ideas, exactly; not morality plays, as I used to try to describe them; at any rate, short novels that hinge on a commitment, a choice, and that emplot the questions of Turgenev’s day, or is it the question? Whether to act. How to act, given that there is wide agreement on the necessity of action and a frustrating lack of scope for it, in intelligentsia circles of Turgenev’s day. They lived under the tsar but read French utopian socia I was and remain in love with Turgenev’s short novels of – not ideas, exactly; not morality plays, as I used to try to describe them; at any rate, short novels that hinge on a commitment, a choice, and that emplot the questions of Turgenev’s day, or is it the question? Whether to act. How to act, given that there is wide agreement on the necessity of action and a frustrating lack of scope for it, in intelligentsia circles of Turgenev’s day. They lived under the tsar but read French utopian socialists. The nobility had an old ethic of service to the state but their once-steep service obligations had been curtailed, and they were left with the ethic – and no outlet. So the history books tell me. Also in Russia, there were no dedicated philosophers as in Germany or France, but literary circles took up this task – to respond to philosophy and social questions; so that everybody was a dilettante; so that novelists and literary critics were the ones to conduct the discussions of the day, social-political-philosophical.

You end up with novels like Turgenev’s. Not novels of ideas, but engaged as get-out, about engaged people, about the question of engagement. You have young women like Natalya in this, who are often the hinge of the decision in the plot; whose young urgency and seriousness about life I found a rare focus in classic fiction when I was her age. I recommend Turgenev’s novels to girls. Let no-one tell me Turgenev’s novels are ‘essentially love stories’, as I see around, because they are about a girl’s puzzle as to where to vest her life and energies. This time, Natalya is wasted, as is Rudin, who was too cowardly (my word, and Natalya’s) to take up her earnest offer and act upon his fine words. Rudin speaks wonderfully on the ideals afloat in the day, and fires other people with enthusiasm – this is his saving grace, that those enthusiasms are not always or altogether lost; that people can take a fine speech on with them through life, and in their seedy age, perhaps, recognise its potency in them, in what they have managed to do. So argues Rudin’s most critical friend, to console a seedy run-down Rudin in his age. He also cites the fact that Rudin has never stayed still, which need not be inability to commit but refusal to commit to the compromises most people do. We get several views of Rudin, two different verdicts even from this friend who changes his mind. Turgenev has made his main a coward but is quite kind to him, early and late. ...more

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Jun 26, 2008 El rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-centurylit-late, russia

Rudin is a highly educated, well-brought up man in his 30s living in Russia. He embodies the Superfluous Man popular in Russian literature: a man of high intelligence and ideals with no action. He is, essentially, all talk and incapable of following through with his thoughts and desires. He is a moocher, living off of the generosity of others. He is taken in by Darya Lasunsky, mother of 17-year-old beauty, Natalya. Rudin befriends Natalya, an equally intelligent young woman, filled with secrets, ...more

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May 11, 2015 Eadweard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-read, russian

"Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is around us. Look at those trees, that sky on all sides there is the breath of beauty, and of life, and where there is life and beauty, there is poetry also."
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"'I assure you, Alexandra Pavlovna,' said Pigasov slowly, 'nothing can be worse and more injurious than good-fortune that comes too late. It cannot give you pleasure in any way, and it deprives you of the right—the pr ...more

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May 19, 2015 Amene rated it liked it

Shelves: روس-ها, 2015

عالى نيست اما خوب هست، ادبيات روس خالص،معرفي ها و شخصيت ها و همه و همه سنت رايج ادبي،لذت بردم اما شگف ت زده نشدم. خيلي شبيه رمان همان هميشگي از يكي ديگر از نويسندگان روس بود كه اسمش يادم نيست. در مجموع فضاي عدم آگاهي، قدر ناشناسي رايج روسيه ي تزاري را نشان مي داد، همان اسامي پرطمطراق روسي و همان زندگي هاي يكنواخت همه ي داستان هاي روسي هم دوره اش.

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Dec 15, 2013 Kim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: three-star-no, goodbye

"Rudin" is the first novel by Ivan Turgenev. Turgenev started to work on it in 1855, and it was first published in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" in 1856. For some reason that I don't know it seems to be the least known of Turgenev's novels. I would think that if you read one or two of his other novels you would want to read the first, but apparently not everyone thinks like I do, which is an incredibly lucky thing come to think of it. Also, I am sure I have never seen any of Turgenev's nov "Rudin" is the first novel by Ivan Turgenev. Turgenev started to work on it in 1855, and it was first published in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" in 1856. For some reason that I don't know it seems to be the least known of Turgenev's novels. I would think that if you read one or two of his other novels you would want to read the first, but apparently not everyone thinks like I do, which is an incredibly lucky thing come to think of it. Also, I am sure I have never seen any of Turgenev's novels other than "Fathers and Sons" in a book store, so maybe it is hard to read them even if you want to. No, I don't have an e-reader, "Rudin" was in a box of books someone gave me, when people are cleaning out their attics they tend to give me the books. :-}

I wasn't going to say anything about the author because Turgenev seemed to me to be one of those great Russian authors everyone knows. Almost every week someone will ask me what I am reading and if I answer Tolstoy or Dostoevsky they usually look at me like I'm crazy but they know who I am talking about. This week a few people asked me and when I said Turgenev not one of them had any idea who that was. I decided to read a biography about him and did find many interesting things that I didn't know. Turgenev was born into a wealthly family, but he had a very lonely childhood. His father died when he was sixteen and he was afraid of his mother who beat him often. When he was nineteen he was on board a ship that caught fire and acted in a cowardly manner. That's what I read, he acted cowardly, these rumors followed him all of his life. Now I read this at three different places and no one says what exactly he did that was cowardly. If he jumped off the burning boat I wouldn't consider that cowardly, I would do the same. It did become the basis for his story "A Fire At Sea", so I'm going to have to go look that up. Also, he died of cancer of the spine, I had never heard of that one and I wish I hadn't now. I feel so sorry for him, he begged his friend Guy de Mausassant for a revolver, and died in great pain. Turgenev didn't seem to like Tolstoy or Dostoevsky much and they didn't like him either, but if I start listing the people I don't like we'll never get to "Rudin" and I am now finally there.

I guess I'll start with our hero, although he certainly didn't seem like a hero to me, Rudin or to use that really long name that everyone seems to have in Russian novels, Dmitry Nikolayevich Rudin. He is described as:

"A man of about thirty-five entered, of a tall, somewhat stooping figure, with crisp curly hair and swarthy complexion, an irregular but expressive and intelligent face, a liquid brilliance in his quick, dark blue eyes, a straight, broad nose, and well-curved lips"

Other than the stooping figure and irregular face, the rest of it makes him sound perfect. Sure he is. More things we are told about Rudin:

"Rudin spoke with intelligence, with fire and with judgment; he showed much learning, wide reading. No one had expected to find in him a remarkable man......Every one felt it strange and incomprehensible that such a clever man should have suddenly made his appearance in the country. He seemed all the more wonderful and, one may even say, fascinating to all of them, beginning with Darya Mihailovna..... All listened to him with profound attention. His eloquence was masterly and attractive, not altogether clear, but even this want of clearness added a special charm to his words.

The exuberance of his thought hindered Rudin from expressing himself definitely and exactly. Images followed upon images; comparisons started up one after another—now startlingly bold, now strikingly true. It was not the complacent effort of the practised speaker, but the very breath of inspiration that was felt in his impatient improvising. He did not seek out his words; they came obediently and spontaneously to his lips, and each word seemed to flow straight from his soul, and was burning with all the fire of conviction. Rudin was the master of almost the greatest secret—the music of eloquence. He knew how in striking one chord of the heart to set all the others vaguely quivering and resounding. Many of his listeners, perhaps, did not understand very precisely what his eloquence was about; but their bosoms heaved, it seemed as though veils were lifted before their eyes, something radiant, glorious, seemed shimmering in the distance.

Standing at the window, not looking at any one in special, he spoke, and inspired by the general sympathy and attention, the presence of young women, the beauty of the night, carried along by the tide of his own emotions, he rose to the height of eloquence, of poetry.... The very sound of his voice, intense and soft, increased the fascination; it seemed as though some higher power were speaking through his lips, startling even to himself.... Rudin spoke of what lends eternal significance to the fleeting life of man.

He had a great deal of good-nature—that special good-nature of which men are full, who are accustomed to feel themselves superior to others. In arguments he seldom allowed his antagonist to express himself fully, he crushed him by his eager, vehement and passionate dialectic."

See, after all that, how could I possibly like this guy? One of the other main characters in the novel is Darya Mihailovna Lasunsky. Darya is a female land owner, the widow of a privy councillor. Most of the book takes place on her estate. She lives with her daughter Natalya Alexyevna usually called Natasha and her two sons. Another interesting character in the book was Mihailo Mihailych Lezhnev, yes another hard to remember name. Lezhnev studied together with Rudin at Moscow University, where they were good friends; he also knew him abroad, but began to dislike him there. The story he tells of why he came to dislike Rudin even as much as I do is interesting. Ok, maybe not as much as I do. Lezhnev is in love with Alexandra Pavlovna Lipina, she is a widow, childless and fairly well off and lives with her brother Sergei Pavlovich Volyntsev. I hope you are writing these names down. The only other character I'll mention now is a minor character, Basistov, the tutor of Darya's two sons.

Now this is what the novel seemed to be about to me, as I already said Lezhnez is in love with Alexandra, Volyntzev is in love with Natasha. Natasha seems to be in love with Rudin. Alexandra seems to be in love with Rudin. Basistov seems to be in love with Rudin. Darya seems to be in love with Rudin. And Rudin definitely seems to be in love with Rudin. It is up to you to read the novel and find out for yourself who is really in love with who, who gets married, who stays single, who lives, who dies, all that kind of stuff. I really did like the book, I wish it would have been longer though, I like long books. I may have even come to like Rudin given enough pages. On to the next book.
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Apr 10, 2017 Andrea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature-russian, genre-fiction, read-sorted

This short anthology consists of three stories all connected by a common theme of characters that cannot fit into the rest of the society. Rudin is a lovely short novel about a man who overthinks everything and, by trying to act as he believes was expected of him, brakes a young girl's heart. The confrontation between Rudin and Natalia is as emotionally charged as the infamous confession in Eugene Onegin, and undoubtedly the best scene in the book. The girl's strength of character and her pain a ...more

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Jan 24, 2016 آتوسا نوید rated it liked it

کتاب رودین را بلافاصله بعد از آشیانه اشراف خواندم. موضوع جالب دو شخصیت اول مشابه هر دو داستان بود . مردی میانسال و دختری جوان درگیر رابطهای عاشقانه میشوند. در هر دو داستان عشق به سرانجامی نمیرسد. مرد بزدلانه پا پس میکشد و دختر خشمگین از رفتار مرد عقب مینشیند. اما اتفاق جالب واکنش شخصیتها در دو داستان است. در داستان رودین مرد (رودین) در نهایت به یک شخصیت انقلابی تبدیل میشود و در جریان درگیریهای قیام ۱۸۴۸ فرانسه کشته میشود. زن داستان (ناتالیا) خوشبخت میشود. و در روند زندگیی آرام قرار میگیرد. آشیان ...more

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Feb 06, 2015 Maryam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

اي جواني مرا به كجا اوردي، انقدر بر سرم زدي كه ديگر جايي براي قدم برداشتن نيست
ولي بايد بپرسم أيا واقعا به هيچ دردي نمي خوردم، أيا واقعا بر روي زمين كاري براي من نيست؟
من بارها از خودم اين سؤال را كرده بودم و هر قدر سعي كردم خودم را در نظر خودم تحقير كنم
باز هم حس مي كردم كه صاحب نيرو و قدرتي هستم كه به همه ادميان إعطاء نشده است! پس
چرا اين نيرو و قدرت ثمري به بار نمي اورد؟
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چرا اينطور است؟ چه چيزي مانع ان مي شود كه مانند ديگران زندگي و فعاليت كنم؟

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Jul 26, 2011 Hansen Wendlandt rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Just fabulous! The modern sense of sarcastic insight that Twain brought into American literature, what Cervantes might have done for literature in general, what Vonnegut and Nabokov turned into a completed art, Turgenev introduced into the standard world of 19th century Russian characters and situations. The wit isn’t as quick as, say, Wilde, but Rudin is sharp, funny and an emotional commentary on wasted potential.

Our title character is not a hero. Despite all his charms--and you can’t deny he Just fabulous! The modern sense of sarcastic insight that Twain brought into American literature, what Cervantes might have done for literature in general, what Vonnegut and Nabokov turned into a completed art, Turgenev introduced into the standard world of 19th century Russian characters and situations. The wit isn’t as quick as, say, Wilde, but Rudin is sharp, funny and an emotional commentary on wasted potential.

Our title character is not a hero. Despite all his charms--and you can’t deny he is one of the most interesting Russians in print--Rudin’s ephemeral success never matures. He is a party trick; as Lezhnev tells us, "elaborate speech is pardonable in a boy, but at his age it's disgraceful to take pleasure in the sound of one's own voice." (237) Generally, Rudin is polite, even an inspiring opportunist, who never lets the last word go unspoken, but he never understands, or perhaps never addresses, the pain he causes, definitely not the pain he has. He critiques Pigasov--"salvation can't be found through rejection" (219)--but the same could be said of Rudin abandoning any "inertia" to complete himself and "accomplish something" (276-277). On the same token, he tells Daria, "Only the individual who can feel love has the right to criticize and condemn" (220), while his own experience with her daughter is at most romanticized affection, which he begins to recognize in a stirring interaction (249). Rudin makes us all question again what our hopes and dreams have in common with happiness. Trapped middle-aged suburbanites might sense a disequilibrium there, but Rudin is the embodiment of the aging wanderer: "Yes, I'm happy, he reiterated, as though trying to convince himself." (254) Like Willy Loman (Death of the Salesman), what can be more depressing than to realize that good intentions were never enough? Like Pete Bancini (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), there is a point where the self-defeated man can say nothing more than, "I'm tired." (301)

Rudin is at his best in argument, or at least when explaining himself: "He was quite good-natured--good-natured in the way that people accustomed to considering themselves superior to others often are." (219) The inital discussion between him and Pigasov is priceless (although given the state of Rudin at the end of the story, the reader does not know how seriously to take his argument about the necessity of philosophical awareness). Pigasov deserves his mark: “brimming with antagonism toward everything and everyone… His ideas didn’t rise above the common level, but his manner of speaking made him seem not merely an intelligent but an extremely bright man.” (198-199) However, his vitriol against women does get a little kitsch: about mistakes, "a man may say, for example, that two times two equals five... but a woman will say that two times two equals a wax candle." (202)

There is no doubt that one reason I enjoyed this novel is my sad self-identification with the title character. Even, however, if it does not serve as a call to reflection for you, chances are you will be fascinated by his plight, led more to compassion than annoyance (as you could only do in novels?). For all Rudin's faults, Turgenev has not written a man without good intention. Consider, within a culture so bent on revenge through deuls, Rudin comes across so likably pathetic that even his enemies decide to forgive and support him.

Finally, despite Turgenev's general silence on matters religious, he does put a few beautiful spiritual words in Rudin's mouth: "The awareness of being the instruments of higher powers ought to outweigh all other joys for human beings." (217) And, "Poetry is the language of the gods... But poetry doesn't occur solely in poems. It's manifest everywhere... Look at those trees, at the sky--we can feel the breath and beauty adn life on all sides." (227)
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Jun 16, 2014 Fatema Hassan , bahrain rated it it was amazing

رواية " رودين للروائي والكاتب المسرحي الروسي ( ايفان تورجينيف ١٨١٨-١٨٨٣) من أنصار الأدب الواقعي و مؤلف رواية الآباء والبنون ،قلمه عاصر أقلام رواد الأدب الروسي فتجده يتحدر من ذات السمات و التقاليد ولكنه أكثر رشاقة و انفتاحًا و تنوعاً وحداثة و ذلك يعود لأن تعليمه أوروبي و قد عاش حياته بين ألمانيا و فرنسا بعد اعتقاله في موطنه روسيا في عهد نيقولا الأول الذي تفتحت في عهد بطشه حركات الكفاح السياسي ، ورغم تميز أعمال تورجينيف كان معاصروه من الأدباء الروس يطلقون عليه " رجل الغرب " لما لمسوا في أسلوبه الر

رواية " رودين للروائي والكاتب المسرحي الروسي ( ايفان تورجينيف ١٨١٨-١٨٨٣) من أنصار الأدب الواقعي و مؤلف رواية الآباء والبنون ،قلمه عاصر أقلام رواد الأدب الروسي فتجده يتحدر من ذات السمات و التقاليد ولكنه أكثر رشاقة و انفتاحًا و تنوعاً وحداثة و ذلك يعود لأن تعليمه أوروبي و قد عاش حياته بين ألمانيا و فرنسا بعد اعتقاله في موطنه روسيا في عهد نيقولا الأول الذي تفتحت في عهد بطشه حركات الكفاح السياسي ، ورغم تميز أعمال تورجينيف كان معاصروه من الأدباء الروس يطلقون عليه " رجل الغرب " لما لمسوا في أسلوبه الروائي من حركات تغيير للموروث الروسي و بعد عن التقاليد الروسية التي تمتاز بالأصالة الأقرب للجمود و تنتج أدبًا أقرب للتماثل منه للإبتكار و يتناول في معظم نتاجه طبقة الأرستقراطيين مانحًا الطبقات الأدنى خانة مهمشة للأسف ، و هنا رواية تخبرك ما هو حال روسيا قبل أن تسود أفكار الكفاح السياسي حيث تناضل عقلية الروسي لنيل علم أكثر انفتاحاً لن يجد ترحاب في ربوع وطنه بين طبقات تأبى الإندماج بشتى أنواعه مع من هو أقل أصالة منها ، رغم تعارض أدباء عصره مع أفكاره و سخريته الأدبية وكان دستويفسكي أبرزهم لمع نجم تورجينيف بالفعل .. و قراءة أعماله تجعلك تشعر ك قارئ بأنه امتداد مميز لذلك الجيل العملاق أدبياً وليس بعيداً عنهم أبداً ..هو امتداد روسي يريد أن يلمس جزءا من عولمة أدبية حين كان الإفتتان بالموروث والإنغلاق عما سواه الديدن السائد .

تقول عنه الروائية الفرنسية " جورج ساند " : ( أيها المعلم إننا جميعاً لا نملك إلا أن نسعى إليك لندرس في مدرستك "
ويقول عنه مترجم هذا العمل " ابراهيم زكي خورشيد ": ( المرء لا يقرأ روايات تورجينيف بل يعيشها )

رودين هو بطل هذا العمل شخص مثقل بفلسفته و بعلمه وطموحاته و لكنه عاجز عن ترجمتها لأفعال تخدم وضعه الإجتماعي و الإقتصادي رغم إنها حصيلة قيمة ترفع شأن مكتسبها نجدها تجعله غامضًا في نظر الآخرين يدور في فراغ النجاح ، يتخذ من إعجاب الآخرين بشخصه الوصولي و عقليته مطية ليتمتع بعيش رغيد و مكانة مؤقتة لا تستطيع مواجهة مجتمع روسي تميزه أصالة تقاليده وهو منيع على أمثال رودين .. رسم تورجينيف شخوص جميلة بألوان زاهية بعيدة عن الرتابة في ٢١٥ صفحة أسلوبه سلس و منمق ومتفلسف حيث لا أقوى أن أقول فلسفي وقد قرأت نتاج أعلام الأد الروسي ... ولكنه أسرع بأشواط في خلق شخوصه ومنحها بهجة حيوية تبتعد عن بلادة الروس .
حين يصل رودين الذي لم يستقر على هدفه في الحياة ويتلون ليحصل على أهدافه لبيت السيدة لاسونسكايا حيث كان جمع ينتظر قدوم البارون ، ولكن رودين يأتي بديل عنه حاملاً رسالة اعتذار لربة المنزل ولن تصدق كيف يكون تأثير شخصية كرودين المثقل بفلسفة هيغل في الحياة على هذا الجمع المتفاوت التفكير و الرغبات .

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Jul 13, 2017 Israel Montoya Baquero rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Excepcional primera novela de Turgenev, con un impresionante personaje central.
La descripcion que se nos hace de Rudin es maravillosa, ofreciendonos un personaje complejo, facilmente querible y odiable que alcanza, gracias a la inclusion del epilogo, una dimension tragicomica que arroba el alma.
Añadamos que Turgenev es capaz, en algunos parrafos, de desplegar un lirismo literario realmente delicioso, y tendremos una "novelita" que hara las delicias de casi cualquier lector

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Dec 31, 2011 Amalie rated it really liked it

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Turgenev has a way with words so whatever the work may be, it is worth reading. The characters here are beautifully written specially for such a short novel and are truly memorable, specially Rudin but memorable characters are there in his short stories as well. The length of a work doesn't stand in the way of Turgenev in creating his rare, yet very realistic characters.

Turgenev's Rudin is the sort of charismatic man who sets people's hearts on fire but he has a fatal flaw. He is a superfluous ...more

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Aug 04, 2016 Rebecka rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This was supposed to be my 1000th read book added to Goodreads, but yesterday I remembered a book I had completely forgotten I had read, and so this is book no 1001! And perhaps that's just as well. This is perhaps not an astonishing piece of literature, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's a typically Russian story (with mainly lots of talking and various uninteresting romances) about a supposedly very promising man who just can't find his place in society. Beautifully written, of course! It's Tu ...more

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Sep 09, 2010 Gol rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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یکی از بهترین کتابایی که تو عمرم خوندم. من اینو از "پدران و پسران" خیلی بیشتر دوس دارم.

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Dec 15, 2016 Danial rated it liked it · review of another edition

من به صورت بوتۀ خشکی به دنیا آمدهام
.که باد آن را به هرطرفی که بخواهد میکشد
.من نمیتوانم بایستم
ص 220

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Jun 07, 2017 Saeed Bagheri rated it really liked it · review of another edition

همیشه هم اشک ها مایه ی خیر نمی شوند...و

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Apr 12, 2015 Aleksander Sharemetov rated it it was amazing

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Рудин - лишний человек, если говорить школьными шаблонами. Это люди исключения. Таких единицы. Мне больше запомнились другие персонажи. Пигасов - местный дикарь: это надо же додуматься толкать женщин в бок осиновым колом! Четыре положительных персонажа достойны упоминания: Наталья Ласунская, Волынцев, Липина и Лежнёв. Рудин, краснобай, гегельянец, но чьи слова расходятся с делом, сбил с толку Наталью Ласунскую. Наталья и Рудин - это как Наташа Ростова и Анатоль Курагин, та же трагедия наивной де Рудин - лишний человек, если говорить школьными шаблонами. Это люди исключения. Таких единицы. Мне больше запомнились другие персонажи. Пигасов - местный дикарь: это надо же додуматься толкать женщин в бок осиновым колом! Четыре положительных персонажа достойны упоминания: Наталья Ласунская, Волынцев, Липина и Лежнёв. Рудин, краснобай, гегельянец, но чьи слова расходятся с делом, сбил с толку Наталью Ласунскую. Наталья и Рудин - это как Наташа Ростова и Анатоль Курагин, та же трагедия наивной девушки. Наталья и бесхарактерный Волынцев (военный, книг не читает) - это Наташа Ростова и обаятельный Пьер Безухов. И Волынцев, и Безухов - мужья-подкаблучники. Но Безухов харизматичен для читателя, чем Волынцев, наверно, потому, что его характер более раскрыт Толстым. Помните признание Безухова в любви перед Наташей Ростовой в конце второго тома? Если пустышке Элен Курагиной он слова не мог из себя выдавить, то тут... любовь, одним словом. Кстати, о любви. Липина и Лежнёв - прекрасный тому пример. Какой флирт, какое предложение руки и сердца - и как это сделано! А ведь в самом начале романа Липина подумала про себя, "какой мешок!" этот Лежнёв. И как всегда тургеневская девушка робко краснеет "до ушей". ...more

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Jan 13, 2012 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it liked it · review of another edition

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But there was in him such a love of light, sunshine, and living human poetry, such an organic aversion for all that is ugly, or coarse and discordant, that he made himself almost exclusively the poet of the gentler side of human nature.

This is not Turgenev's description of the title character, but is, instead, the description of the author Turgenev as contained in the Introduction to this novel. I haven't seen a better way of saying why I enjoy this author.

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Aug 26, 2016 Sarah Hosseini rated it liked it

نیمه ی اول کتاب رو زودی خوندم و رفتم جلو. اما از نیمه ی دوم تبدیل شد به یکی از ملال آورترین رمان های روسی. با همون تصاویر آشنای آدم های خسته و دلزده از زندگی، با پالتوهای مستعمل و خاک گرفته که تو مسافرخونه ها پیداشون میشه. به نظرم تورگنیف خیلی زود رها کرد شخصیت اصلیش رو. دلم می خواست واقعن بیشتر راجع به رودین بدونم. درنهایت اما این کتاب بیشتر کتاب «اظهارنظرها و توصیفاتِ کوتاه قشنگ» شد واسه من. مثل این: بالاخره این هم خودش نوعی حساب است که انسان نقاب بی قیدی و تنبلی به صورت خود بزند که شاید دیگر ...more

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Oct 20, 2016 Maxim rated it liked it

So, what we learned? Everyone will die at last, but some of them die continuously...

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Apr 06, 2017 Ehsan Sharei rated it really liked it · review of another edition

خواندنش سراسر شوق است و لذت

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Mar 19, 2015 Kat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: russian-literature, nineteenth-century-literature

Turgenev is one of my favorite writers.

I love Rudin, Turgenev’s first nove. I have read it again and again. It is elegant, lyrical, and also disturbing in its revelations about the malleability of human nature. Each character is portrayed as delicately as a figure in a water-color painting, vivified by physical description, humor, and dialogue. Rudin, the intellectual stranger who arrives unexpectedly at the wealthy Darya Mihailovna’s estate, immediately dominates the household and turns relatio Turgenev is one of my favorite writers.

I love Rudin, Turgenev’s first nove. I have read it again and again. It is elegant, lyrical, and also disturbing in its revelations about the malleability of human nature. Each character is portrayed as delicately as a figure in a water-color painting, vivified by physical description, humor, and dialogue. Rudin, the intellectual stranger who arrives unexpectedly at the wealthy Darya Mihailovna’s estate, immediately dominates the household and turns relationships topsy-turvy as he discourses on philosophy and human nature. As each character gradually finds that Rudin is not quite who he seems to be, Rudin himself undergoes a transformation.

Rudin is simple, and yet not simple. Turgenev’s brevity expresses more than many long-winded writers can in books twice as long. I recently reread Rudin in Constance Garnett’s beautiful translation, which is available in a Faber Finds paperback or as a free e-book for the Kindle or the Nook.

Rudin begins with some of the most gorgeous prose I have ever read, a description of a summer day in rural Russia.

"It was a quiet summer morning. The sun stood already pretty high in the clear sky but the fields were still sparkling with dew; a fresh breeze blew fragrantly from the scarce awakened valleys and in the forest, still damp and hushed, the birds were merrily carolling their morning sun. On the ridge of a swelling upland, which was covered from base to summit with blossoming rye, a little village was to be seen. Along a narrow by road to this little village a young woman was walking in a white muslin gown, and a round straw hat, with a parasol in her hand."

Many of the main characters are introduced during the course of a walk. (Walks are so important in literature, aren’t they?) Alexandra Pavolvna Lipin, a young widow, is on her way to visit a sick old woman in the village On her way home Alexandra Pavolovna runs into Mihailo Mihailitch Lezhnyov, an intelligent, practical farmer who teases her and asks if she is thinking about giving up projects like hospitals and schools now that she is spending so much time with Darya Mihailovna, who dismisses all but personal philanthropy as fads. Alexandra laughs and says she doesn’t always agree with Darya Mihailovna.. Then she meets Pandelevsky, one of Darya Mihailovna’s charming, flirtatious parasites, who brings her a letter inviting her there for dinner. She also runs into her brother Volintsev, who is in love with Darya’s daughter, Natalya.

That evening, gathered at Darya Mihailovna’s , all are surprised when Rudin arrives, sent by his friend the Baron. Most of the guests are charmed and fascinated by his eloquence. He speaks of pride, egoism, and Hegel in a vague but impressive manner. But Pigasov, a cynical, misogynistic neighbor, is furious at being upstaged and leaves. Natalya, Darya’s passionate daughter, falls in love with Rudin; Rudin secretly courts Natalya, and that is what brings him down. And Mikhail, who knows Rudin’s story, is not surprised by what happens, but oddly Rudin’s fall changes his mind about him.

In the very dated 1894 introduction to my e-book, S. Stepniak writes,

"The plot of Dmitri Rudin is so exceedingly simple that an English novel-reader would say that there is hardly any plot at all…. What the novelists of the romantic school obtain by the charm of unexpected adventures and thrilling situations, Turgenev succeeds in obtaining by the brisk, admirably concentrated action, and, above all, by the simplest and most precious of a novelist’s gifts: his unique command over the sympathies and emotions of the readers."

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Feb 07, 2015 Simona Stoica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

„- Uite, zise Rudin, şi cu un gest, îi arătă fereastra, vezi mărul ăsta, s-a rupt din pricina poverii şi a numeroaselor sale roade.. Adevăratul simbol al geniului.”

Nu am întâlnit de foarte mult timp o carte care să se joace cu atâta uşurinţă şi dezinvoltură cu sentimentele mele, o operă care să mă pună în încurcătură prin cuvintele unui personaj atât de complex, bântuit de propriile gânduri şi idealuri, încât e dispus să îşi sacrifice fericirea pentru un adevăr îmbrăcat în minciună. Un adevăr ca „- Uite, zise Rudin, şi cu un gest, îi arătă fereastra, vezi mărul ăsta, s-a rupt din pricina poverii şi a numeroaselor sale roade.. Adevăratul simbol al geniului.”

Nu am întâlnit de foarte mult timp o carte care să se joace cu atâta uşurinţă şi dezinvoltură cu sentimentele mele, o operă care să mă pună în încurcătură prin cuvintele unui personaj atât de complex, bântuit de propriile gânduri şi idealuri, încât e dispus să îşi sacrifice fericirea pentru un adevăr îmbrăcat în minciună. Un adevăr care îl manipulează atunci când este singur şi nu îl lasă să se dezvolte şi să atingă perfecţiunea tristă a geniului, care a înţeles cu câtă uşurinţă se poate prăbuşi, după ce toţi îi întorc spatele şi observă teama pe care încearcă cu disperare să o ţină ascunsă de cei din jur, dar, în special, de el însuşi.

Suferinţa pe care o simt în aceste clipe, la câteva minute după ce am terminat Amor şi Nestatornicie (Rudin, în original), poartă amprenta degetelor lui Ivan Sergheievici Turgheniev. Îl iubesc şi îl urăsc pe acest clasic rus, care ”a profitat” de emoţiile mele şi m-a transformat într-un personaj-fantomă, care l-a urmărit cu fascinaţie pe Dmitri Rudin Nikolaici, sorbindu-i fiecare cuvânt cu sete, de parcă el cunoştea toate secretele care îmi frământau mintea şi aştepta momentul prielnic pentru a-mi oferi răspunsurile mult dorite.
„Adevărul este că cuvintele lui Rudin vor rămâne pururea vorbe, nu vor deveni niciodată fapte... Şi totuşi aceste cuvinte pot tulbura, pot pierde o inimă tânără.”

Daria Mihailovna Lasuneskaia este o moşieriţă bogată, respectată de bărbaţi şi invidiată de femei (unul dintre motivele pentru care invită doar bărbaţi la ea acasă), care preferă să îşi amintească de vremurile trecute şi să retrăiască (la nesfârşit) diferite întâmplări, povestind cu pasiune şi melancolie oricărei persoane care îi oferă puţin din timpul său, în loc să fie atentă la schimburile de priviri şi de replici care au loc sub acoperişul ei, unde mai multe personaje îşi trăiesc dramele şi visurile în spatele unor măşti abil construite, până când iubirea şi durerea fac front comun, iar fiecare mască este spulberată la o simplă adiere a realităţii.

În momentul în care Dmitri Rudin Nikolaici îşi face apariţia la casa moşieriţei, am avut impresia că un voal s-a revărsat peste restul personajelor, poate un descântec vechi sau o vrajă interzisă, pentru că în ciuda sentimentelor contradictorii pe care Rudin le naşte în sufletul fiecăruia, chiar dacă ei ajung să-l iubească, să-l respecte, să-l ignore sau să-l urască, toţi sunt fermecaţi de prezenţa sa şi de harul pe care îl are în modelarea cuvintelor, un dar pe care foarte puţini oameni îl au şi ştiu să-l dezvolte astfel încât să atragă atenţia tuturor asupra sa.

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Mar 05, 2012 Casey rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Rudin is the story of Dmitri Nikolaevich Rudin, the titular character, who travels to the Russian countryside to stay with the widowed female landowner Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya.

He interacts with her small social circle: her daughter Natalya Aleskeevna Lasunskaya, her secretary Konstantin Diomidych Pandalevskii; and other landowners: the brother and sister Sergei Pavlovich Volyntsev and Aleksandra Pavlovna Lipina, woman hating Afrikan Semenych Pigasov, and social eschewing Mihailo Mihailych ...more

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Nov 29, 2011 Megan Baxter rated it liked it

I read this in an edition with another novella, A King Lear of the Steppes. Of the two, I preferred the latter. Although I've been finding a certain fondness for Russian literature over the last couple of years, Rudin impressed me not at all. It was a comedy of manners without the manners, in which nothing much happened, nobody was much affected, consequences pretty much invisible, and at the end, a strange reversal in which the one character who disliked Rudin intensely from the beginning sudde ...more

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May 30, 2016 kiki rated it liked it

the story reminded me fathers and sons.pigasof reminds me the character of pavel petrovich they both thinks they are the best and they know everything and they are somehow sophist and pavel petrovich is nihilist basistov reminds me kirsanov and Darya Mikhailovna reminds me nikolay petrovich they both love science and philosophy and they love to support scientists or philosophers. and actually nataliya a little reminds me Eugénie Grandet. Rudin is ssomeone who just can talk like philosopher but a ...more

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Feb 14, 2014 Sara Elsaeed rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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والدموع لاتأتى دائماً بالفرج , بل هى تروح عن النفس وتشفيها ممابها إذا واتت بعد طول احتباس , واستعصت أول الأمر على الجهد , ثم راحت تنهمر فى تكاثر رخية عذبة , وهكذا يخف الألم المبرح الصامت , على أن ثم عبرات باردة , عبرات تند من العين فى حنق وضغينة , ويعتصرها من القلب قطرة قطرة ماناء به من من حزن شديد مقيم , وهذه العبرات لاتأتى بعزاء ولاتفرج كرباً , والحاجة الملجة هى التى تستدر هذه الدموع , ومن لم يذرفها لايكن قد عرف الشقاء حقاً "

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Nov 15, 2016 Chet Herbert rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Favorite quotations:
" . . . we always love those who are themselves little capable of love."

"There's no harder thing in the world than being aware of your own recent stupidity."

[From the introduction of Turgenev's Home of the Gentry, trans by Richard Freeborn]: "Turgenev became the chronicler of this type of 'superfluous man' intellectual . . . an intellectual, educated abroad, who can find no place for himself in semi-feudal Russian society and whose primary function becomes that of an eloquent ...more

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Sep 24, 2015 Jorge Cienfuegos rated it it was ok · review of another edition

El ambiente, el tema y la prosa del autor a priori lo tenían todo para gustarme, pero la novela me ha resultado insustancial de principio a fin. No he conseguido que ninguno de los personajes me despierten ni un mínimo de interés, así que ha sido una lectura bastante tediosa, y seguramente no la hubiera terminado de no ser por su corta extensión. No descarto leer obras posteriores del autor, porque sé que esta no es de las mejores, pero esta, desde luego, no me ha interesado lo más mínimo.

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About Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Тургенев) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862). These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the ...more

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“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!” — 187 likes

“Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them.” — 4 likes

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