Category Archives: Literature/poetry/spoken word

turgenev: the end

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Dave

The power of the pen over the sword… …The Viardot’s had been living in Baden-Baden because of Louis Viardot’s hatred of Napoleon III. After the emperor’s abdication in 1870, they returned to France and settled in a house at Bougival, … Continue reading →

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turgenev: fathers & sons & a smoke

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Dave

Ivan Turgenev was Russia’s great emancipator of the serf. His method: Show what their lives were really like through his stories and novels… …Alexander II’s emancipation act of the serfs of 1861 was the background for Ivan Turgenev’s next novel, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Boris Kustodiev painter, Czar Alexander II, Gustave Dore, Harriet Beecher Stowe, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons, Louis Viardot, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pauline Viardot, Russia Serf emancipation | Leave a comment

turgenev: losing baptized property

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Dave

Ivan Turgenev. He was Russia’s Great Emancipator, helping abolish serfdom; he helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: writing short stories that showed what their lives were like… …In Russia, at least, the prospects for emancipation … Continue reading →

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the future: misleading desires for permanence

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Dave

The future is a relic, and industry and a myth. For all our scientific prognostications, do we know any more about it than the average Zoroastrian? …After Louis Sebastien Mercier passed into the dustbin of history, a new breed of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Auguste Comte, John Gast painter, Jules Verne, LOuis Sebastien Mercier L'an 2440, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist | Leave a comment

turgenev: fighting for the serf on his turf

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Dave

Ivan Turgenov was Russia’s great emancipator. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by the devastating method of showing what their lives were like through his short stories… ..As A Sportman’s Sketches appeared one by one in The Contemporary, their … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Czar Nicholas I, Gogol Dead Souls, Gogol Russian writer, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Vavara Petrovna | Leave a comment

tergenev: high tide for the serf

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Dave

The great emancipator: Ivan Turgenev and his collection of stories A Sportsman’s Sketch. He helped bring freedom to the serf by the devastating method of showing them what their lives were like through fiction… …Even in those stories where the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Honore Daumier, Ilya Repin, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Vavara Petrovna | Leave a comment

turgenev: sportman’s sketch

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Dave

Turgenev was the great emancipator of the Russian serf. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: Ivan Turgenev showed them what their lives were like… The inception of the Sketches was casual. In 1847 Turgenev … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Gogol Dead Souls, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nikolai Gogol, Pauline Viardot, Victor Hume Moody, Vissarion Belinski | Leave a comment

turgenev: taking the serf out of soviet

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Dave

Ivan Turgenev was Russia’s great emancipator. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: showing what their lives were like… …Vavara Petrovna soon had another reason to be angry with her son. During the season of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Boris Kustodiev painter, Heinrich Heine, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Louis Viardot, Pauline Viardot, Vissarion Belinski, Vissarion Belinsky | Leave a comment

where evil lurks

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Dave

Discarding the ideas of wild and pervasive divine supervision,of animals with the souls of men and women, and how evil and villainy can exist in the world under such scrutiny, has long troubled humanity. The world may be short of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Caravaggio, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Northern Renaissance Painting | Leave a comment

problems of evil

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Dave

What entered god’s mind when he put the serpent into the Garden of Eden, only he knows, and by now he may well have regretted it, had second thoughts, or perhaps forgot. In any event, it’s too late. But since … Continue reading →