Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Desperate Character Etc Translated From the Russian
Pyetasneov is the work of a young man of twenty-nine, and its lively, unstrained realism is so bold, intimate, and delicate as to contra dict the ?attering compliment that the French have paid to one another-that Turgenev had need to dress his art by the aid of French mirrors.
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