Had this been a slightly more modern novel - say written in the 1910's or 20's - there might have been a needed sexual undercurrent that is sorely missing here. I understand he was well bred and that his manners contrast beautifully with the situation of his love, but even when he was most mad, in the garden at midnight, I never really felt like I was with him. Not because I didn't share any of his experiences - what young man hasn't - but there was a strange formality in him that seemed at odds with his age. I have to admit to not feeling as close to Vladimir as I would have liked. The novel speaks to a greater need for people to live, at all costs and at any price, no matter the amount of pain it inflicts.
This edition of the book is based on the text published on Project Gutenberg and the translator is Constance Garnett.The final image of the novel, of the old lady in rags and dying on a hard floor with a sack under her head as she fights to stay alive despite a lifetime of misery gives the novel a greater perspective than just a young man sadly in love with a woman he won't have. This fact is recurrent in Turgenev's books, since it serves as a way of representing life in his daily life. In this way we will have a first level of narration that will serve to introduce us through a retrospect in the history of the protagonist.Īs for the place, the action takes place in a country house. Turgenev poses as a framework for the story a meeting of friends among whom one, the protagonist Vladimir, will recount his sentimental experience. In the book, the characters who are carried away by feelings have a bad ending, so it is not a story with a happy ending. The central theme of the work raises the debate between rational and sentimental thoughts. Vladimir is a young teenager from Moscow who falls in love with a new neighbor of his summer residence: Princess Zinaída Aleksándrovna. The book tells us about the love experience of Vladimir Petrovich. First Love Book download in PDF, ePub & Mobi by Ivan Turgenevįirst Love is a novella written by Ivan Turgenev and published in 1860.
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