- 5
- Episodes
- 2
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About First Love by Ivan S. Turgenev
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The “boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her” story is universal but not, I think, banal – despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. “First Love” is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev’s mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce’s “epiphanies”) that transforms the character’s whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes – e.g. “but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol.” (Summary by Martin Geeson)
- Publisher
- Loyal Books
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 29 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Jan 2024
Latest episodes
5 episodes in the feed.
2 Jan 2024
01 – Introductory, Chapters I – V
1 Jan 2024
02 – Chapters VI – IX
31 Dec 2023
03 – Chapter X – XIV
30 Dec 2023
04 – Chapters XV – XVII
29 Dec 2023
05 – Chapters XVIII – XXII
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
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