The Bully

3 hrs. 18 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Ivan Turgenev

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

Turgenev’s “Braggart” embodied a typical phenomenon of Russian provincial life of the 1840s: a phenomenon that arose partly under the influence of Pechorin, yet differed from him in inner emptiness, intellectual barrenness, and vulgarity. Despite the artistic immaturity of “The Braggart,” it remains indisputable that Turgenev created here a life-true, typical character and gave it the correct social and ethical assessment.