A Soft Pear
Tom Crewe: Totally Tourgenueff, 21 April 2022
A Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories
by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Jessie Coulson.
Riverrun, 568 pp., £9.99, April 2020,978 1 5294 0405 0 Show More
by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Jessie Coulson.
Riverrun, 568 pp., £9.99, April 2020,
Love and Youth: Essential Stories
by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater.
Pushkin, 222 pp., £12, October 2020,978 1 78227 601 2 Show More
by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater.
Pushkin, 222 pp., £12, October 2020,
“... of A Nest of Gentlefolk, with ‘First Love’ and two other superb long stories, in Jessie Coulson’s neglected translations of 1959, in addition to new versions of ‘First Love’ and five stories from A Sportsman’s Sketches by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater, prompts us to ask again: ‘What is Tourguéneffish?’ Edmund ... ”