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A review by athend
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
3.0
A flirtatious young girl flirts and leads on a crowd of sex starved pervs who worship her for no particular reason than her virtues of being young, pretty and a tease. Protagonist, like any other 16 year olds, has a lot of enthusiasm but zero knowledge of how any of it works, so he's just following her caprices like a dummy.
Girl proceeds to ignore all her wannabe-boyfriends and jumps into an affair with an older guy who actually knows what's up (such shock!). Of course, the guy is married (big scandal!), such drama!
And at the end, as in has to be with any self-respecting Russian book (or any story, for that matter), we have DEATH, a surprising amount of it!
There, at the final, we read the protagonist's sobering retrospective on love, youth, feelings and how fleeting and precious life is. It's actually worth to go through the entirety of this book and suffer all the delusional oh's and ah's of youth, just to read the last few musings. If it wasn't for that part, this review would have been 2 stars less.
Girl proceeds to ignore all her wannabe-boyfriends and jumps into an affair with an older guy who actually knows what's up (such shock!). Of course, the guy is married (big scandal!), such drama!
And at the end, as in has to be with any self-respecting Russian book (or any story, for that matter), we have DEATH, a surprising amount of it!
There, at the final, we read the protagonist's sobering retrospective on love, youth, feelings and how fleeting and precious life is. It's actually worth to go through the entirety of this book and suffer all the delusional oh's and ah's of youth, just to read the last few musings. If it wasn't for that part, this review would have been 2 stars less.