Works of Turgenev - the work of this artist

The work of this artist is distinguished by a unity that is saturated with a rich inner meaning reflected in the individual elements of the whole. The basis of this integrity are the visible tendencies that distinguish Turgenev's works - the universalism of author's emotionality and elegism of artistic thought.

Beginning of the Writer's Way

For I.S. Turgenev from the very beginning of the writer's way was a desire to comprehend and perceive the surrounding world in all its diversity. In his early poem-drama "Steno" he tried to reflect all aspects of human existence. This "all-embracing" characterizes Turgenev's works. A person's place in society, as a person and individuality, his being in all manifestations is the key universal of the writer. It was she who determined his ideological and philosophical content of all creativity and all genre delights. At the beginning of the creative path, he tried to "find out in his own way" his genre angle of view, to "assemble" his artistic world, the writer's self. Turgenev's works show how wide the genre range of the creator - he and the playwright, poet, and prose writer - so embodied Ivan Sergeevich's search for his ideal artistic form, which would correspond to the universal task he had set himself.

From lyrics to prose

Turgenev's desire for universalization is a red thread through all his early work, which mainly consists of lyrical works. However, neither the dramatic, nor the lyrical, nor the epic genre satisfied the writer, so he decided to realize himself as an artist in more suitable genres for his personality - a novel and a story. Nevertheless, the experience of the playwright, poet and author of sketches and stories became the stylistic basis of the subsequent prose writings of the writer. If, while studying the genre system of Turgenev's creativity, special attention is given to the genre specificity of the novel and the story, it can be noted that they are in close dialectical interconnection. Turgenev's works, the list of which will be shown below, indicate that the prose was considered by the writer as a genre of literature, which has a great potential to depict "the elements of social life," the process of development and formation of the person's personality , in short, the prose for the author opened the prospects for an amazing content .

Dialogue with the novel

An analysis of the work of Turgenev, anyone belonging to the period of the 1840s, shows his expressive desire to conduct a "dialogue" with the genre of the novel, the image of which is invariably present in his creative consciousness. Even in the verse novels ("Andrew", "Parasha"), one can already see the concept of the original Turgenev story, which later will be dialectically connected with the novel. The works of Turgenev (the list of which looks quite impressive) - "The Inn", "Mumu", "Correspondence", "Bretter", "Calm", "Two friends", "Diary of superfluous man" - are formed in the artistic consciousness of the creator as a dialogue with Novel.

The novel "lives" a novel, and the novel - a story

Beginning in the 1850s, at the level of the dialogue between the ideas of the novel and the story, the designs of artistic works and their subsequent implementation, Turgenev finally managed to adequately express his initial attitude toward "all-embracing", the comprehension of human life and life. The works of Turgenev, Asya, On the eve, Fathers and Sons, the collection of Notes of the Hunter, and Rudin also prove that the author was most fully able to realize himself in the genres of the novel and novels, which, Genre paradigm, remaining in close dialogue. Turgenev's novel "lives" a novel, and his novel is a story, reflecting the dialectic of the writer's artistic thoughts, they represent all the main Turgenev motifs and themes, they differ in their substantial volume.

Elegical attitude

The elegiac mood and world attitudes combined all the genres in Turgenev's work, they are present in stories, early lyrics, novels, poetic novels and even in comedies. Turgenev's works are vividly demonstrated by the fact that the palette of his work is extremely wide - the elegiac in the author's artistic world exists with a tragic narrative, dramatic in novels, satirical in his poetic novels. This helps express the artist's words to the beauty and worth of the human person. It seems that the reader, who prefers the elegiac style of Turgenev's work as a whole, does not perceive the author's "tragic face". This is due to the fact that the elegiac beginning, despite the tragedy of human existence and its inextricability with the life of nature, indicates a path that will lead to harmony in the relations of man, nature, people, the universe and history.