Rudin
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"Rudin" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev that portrays an eloquent but ineffectual intellectual whose inability to act reflects the dilemmas of the Russian intelligentsia in the mid-19th century.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rudin canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptation | stage adaptations ⓘ |
| author | Ivan Turgenev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | intellectual brilliance versus practical ineffectiveness ⓘ |
| characterTypeDepicted | superfluous man ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mikhailo Mikhailovich Lezhnev NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalya Alexeevna NERFINISHED ⓘ Pigasov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | Sovremennik magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1856 ⓘ |
| genre |
novel of ideas
ⓘ
philosophical novel ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | regarded as an important early Turgenev novel ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Rudin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleInRussian | Рудин NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
European romanticism
ⓘ
contemporary Russian social thought ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Russian realism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | early portrayal of the Russian superfluous man type ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
psychological characterization
ⓘ
social commentary ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motif |
generational conflict
ⓘ
romantic disillusionment ⓘ social stagnation ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century Russian literature canon ⓘ |
| philosophicalFocus | tension between ideals and reality ⓘ |
| placeInAuthorOeuvre | one of Turgenev's early major novels ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | eloquent but ineffectual intellectual ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| publisherType | 19th-century Russian literary journal ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | mid-19th century Russia ⓘ |
| socialClassOfProtagonist | Russian nobility ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Russian provincial gentry life
ⓘ
intellectual debates among the nobility ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
conflict between words and action
ⓘ
dilemmas of the Russian intelligentsia ⓘ unfulfilled idealism ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | post-Napoleonic era ⓘ |
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