Ivan Turgenev 
On the Eve 

Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy. In his essay ‘When Will the Real Day Come?’, Nikolay Dobrolyubov analyzed On the Eve through a political lens that Turgenev disagreed with, offending the author.

A propos de l’auteur

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.