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It wasn’t by accident that Turgenev and Flaubert were “pen pals.” For Turgenev, the germ of the story was never plot. It was the representation of certain persons. The individual was most important and Turgenev made a dossier for each of his characters. Turgenev’s story consists of the motions of a group of selected characters that are not the result of a preconceived action, but as a consequence of the qualities of the actors. But Turgenev, like Flaubert, was a master of organizational structure and before he began dealing with his characters he was very concerned in their environment and how that environment affected characters’ personalities and their behavior. This essay addresses both of those issues.
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Axelrod, M. (2016). The Poetics of Dramatic Prose in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons . In: Poetics of Prose. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43558-9_3
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