Word: tourgenev
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...lecturer now compared at length the work of the three great representatives of the Russian naturalistic school-Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. Differing as novelists they also differed as thinkers. Tourgenev pictures evil wherever he sees it-among the peasants or their masters. He unveils humanity by putting the two social classes side by side. He is one of the most striking examples of the power of art, penetrating to the reader's heart by the power of simple beauty. He first gave the name of "nihilists" to those who acknowledged no authority in anything...
...next lecture will be devoted to the consideration of this reform, its moral significance, and its intellectual influence, in so far as they expressed themselves in the writings of Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy...
...central point of the next lecture will be Gogol and the genesis of the Russian naturalistic school, of which Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy are the chief representatives...
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