"For Turgenev, we do not have an answer"
October 1, 2022 9:32 PM Subscribe
I am looking for this very surprising quote several decades ago, about Russian and English novelists, but can only remember the rough outline.
I remember reading a quote by an English (the language) author, that compared English and Russian novelists, and went roughly like:
"For Tolstoy, we have Shakespeare; for Dostoevsky we have Hardy; for Turgenev, we do not have a counterpart"
I am sure I have all the names wrong, except for Turgenev!
Could anyone point me to the proper quote?
I remember reading a quote by an English (the language) author, that compared English and Russian novelists, and went roughly like:
"For Tolstoy, we have Shakespeare; for Dostoevsky we have Hardy; for Turgenev, we do not have a counterpart"
I am sure I have all the names wrong, except for Turgenev!
Could anyone point me to the proper quote?
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posted by fregoli at 2:42 AM on October 2, 2022