Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines the presentation of the protagonist as alienated radical activist in the novels Отцы и дети (Fathers and Sons) and Трудное время (Hard Times).Both Turgenev and Sleptsov draw on ideological and social questions of the day, yet each also creates a protagonist situated within a literary context.The Romantic hero, particularly as defined by Byron, is the major paradigm for Turgenev, while Sleptsov adopts a more skeptical approach.At the same time both protagonists are also imbued with the 19th-century Russia interpretation of Hamlet as a study in social frustration.
Author: William C. Brumfield
Institution: Tulane University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2473954467