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A review by fleabags
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
5.0
“Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love – where are you? Where are you?”
“Her presence seared me like a flame…but what did I care what kind of fire this was in which I burned and melted, when it was bliss to burn and to melt?”
“What has come of it all – of all that I had hoped for? And now when the shades of evening are beginning to close in upon my life, what have I left that is fresher, dearer to me, than the memories of that brief storm that came and went so swiftly one morning in the spring?”
it would be so interesting to read how things unfolded from zinaida's pov!! incredibly beautiful and lyrical prose. i did not expect it to take an absolutely wild plot turn but it was in true russian fashion lol.
“Her presence seared me like a flame…but what did I care what kind of fire this was in which I burned and melted, when it was bliss to burn and to melt?”
“What has come of it all – of all that I had hoped for? And now when the shades of evening are beginning to close in upon my life, what have I left that is fresher, dearer to me, than the memories of that brief storm that came and went so swiftly one morning in the spring?”
it would be so interesting to read how things unfolded from zinaida's pov!! incredibly beautiful and lyrical prose. i did not expect it to take an absolutely wild plot turn but it was in true russian fashion lol.