Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Rudin Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Russian edition

Rudin was the first of Ivan Turgenev?s novels, but already the topic of the superfluous man and his inability to act,which became a major theme of Turgenev's literary work, was explored. Similarly to Turgenev?s other novels, the main conflict in Rudin was centred on a love story of the main character and a young, but intellectual and self-conscious woman who is contrasted with the main hero. Indeed, this type of female character became known in literary criticism as the ?Turgenev maid?.