Synopses & Reviews
Review
"It might be said (Mr. Ripp does not) that Turgenev was a John O'Hara with talent. He was a keen observer of a certain class of Russian society, and in his fiction he tried to show the struggle of that class to define itself in the changed conditions of the middle of the last century. The class was, of course, the gentry. In all Turgenev's works, the peasants, cleverly drawn
though many be, are mere foils for the dispirited, despairing landed gentry which is moving toward its certain doom. Mr. Ripp does a fine job of analyzing Notes of a Hunter and Fathers and Sons." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)