TY - GEN AU - Woodward,James B. TI - Metaphysical Conflict. A Study of the Major Novels of Ivan Turgenev SN - b12254 PY - 1990/// CY - Bern PB - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group KW - Literature & literary studies KW - bicssc KW - altruism KW - Conflict KW - egoistic will KW - Ivan KW - Major KW - Metaphysical KW - natural law KW - Novels KW - philosophy and literature KW - Schopenauer KW - Study KW - Turgenev KW - Woodward N1 - Open Access N2 - Written between 1855 and 1862, the four novels "Rudin", "A Nest o f the Gentry", "On the Eve" and "Fathers and Sons" are generally recognised as Turgenev's most notable contribution to Russian and world literature. Are they primarily social chronicles, as Turgenev suggested, or are they rather to be seen as celebrations of life, of the beauty of love and youthful idealism? Are they paens to the nobility of the human spirit or ironic comments on human folly? The same questions are addressed in the present study, but the question with which it is principally concerned is that of the novels' essential character UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26349/1/1003732.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26349/1/1003732.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26349/1/1003732.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30030 ER -