#turgenev

[recursive-rupture]

"There are great delights hidden in the uneventful, still and placid stream of life, and he abandoned himself to them with rapture - demanding nothing specific of this day and neither thinking of the morrow nor recalling yesterday."

Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev

[bookmuseum]

“Strange things happen on this earth: you can live a long while with someone and be on the friendliest of terms, and yet you’ll never once talk openly with him, from the depths of your soul; while with someone else you may scarcely have met, at one glance, whether you to him or he to you, just as in a confessional, you’ll blurt out the story of your life.”

—Ivan Turgenev, “District Doctor” (1848)

[angelnovel]

anyone here read fathers and sons is there like a fandom or something on here i dont want him to die yet i miss him🙁🙁🙁🙁i cry

[irreparableinnocence]

There was a bit in chapter XXI where Bazarov compared Arkady's heart to plum compote, which surprised and delighted me, and as I look at every other translation in turn it seems that the translator of my edition made it up out of whole cloth...

[ghost-is-crying]

Really enjoyed Turgenev's short story Asya, now onto First Love, interesting so far!

Studying is mildly getting to me, but my logic course is fun so like I'll cope ;-;

"Tomorrow I'll be happy! Happiness has no tomorrow. It has no yesterday. It does not remember the past, it does not think of the future. It only has a present time -and that's not a whole day, but only an instant" -Ivan Turgenev, Asya

[russia-libertaire]

"We have all become insufferably reasonable, indifferent, and slothful; we are asleep and cold..."

Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev

[seldomscans]

Heliotrope no Koi by Mizuno Hideko (1969)

What can I say? It is known that I am weak for Russian literature and character who run towards their ruin at full speed, so I had to do this Mizuno one shot too... Here is another story by Turgenev, like the previous First Love, to give you some feelings on this cold weekend. Heliotrope Love, was adapted from his Smoke, and I strongly recommend that you read it. Here are some parts that I loved, but that were sadly weren't included in the limited page count of the manga, so I'll leave them here:

‘But I can’t live without you, Irina,’ Litvinov interrupted, in a whisper now; ‘I am yours for ever and always, since yesterday.... I can only breathe at your feet....’

...As though I could complain when you love me, Irina! I wanted only to tell you that, of all this dead past, all those hopes and efforts, turned to smoke and ashes, there is only one thing left living, invincible, my love for you. Except that love, nothing is left for me; to say it is the sole thing precious to me, would be too little; I live wholly in that love; that love is my whole being; in it are my future, my career, my vocation, my country! You know me, Irina; you know that fine talk of any sort is foreign to my nature, hateful to me, and however strong the words in which I try to express my feelings, you will have no doubts of their sincerity, you will not suppose them exaggerated. I’m not a boy, in the impulse of momentary ecstasy, lisping unreflecting vows to you, but a man of matured age—simply and plainly, almost with terror, telling you what he has recognised for unmistakable truth. Yes, your love has replaced everything for me—everything, everything!

God I wish I could love someone like that/someone loved me like that.

DDL MangaDex

This manga was originally published in Monthly Seventeen's issues 30-36 in 1969. I must say all Seventeen manga might be just to my taste.

Thanks go to 5MENP for splitting Edelweiss with me, to phuji and shielshi, my dear Seldom gang, for making this project see the light of day.

And of course, thank you, Attolia, for giving me the push I needed to translate this. I've missed you <3

[aishnico]

pavel petrovich: stop dating my nephew!

bazarov: you know what? i’m gonna start dating him even harder