Psychology of Love in the “Mysterious Stories” by Turgenev Cover Image

Психология любви в ,, таинственным повестях " И. С. Тургенев
Psychology of Love in the “Mysterious Stories” by Turgenev

Author(s): Aèlita Bazilevskaja
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: personality; secret psychology; tragic sense of love; laws of love; mystery; supersensual; Turgenev; Goethe; Faust

Summary/Abstract: Last years of I.S. Turgenev’s life are marked by his increased interest in problem of theinexplicable, supernatural, strange. Mystery of love and laws of love are on the foreground of his“mysterious stories” written in 1870-1880-ies. Peripetias of love feeling are conjugated to activityof the supersensual, irrational within mentality of heroes, to their hereditary links, unintentionalfaults, misgivings and insights. The concealed and obvious, conscious and unconscious in humanmore often are conveyed not in traditional Turgenevian way of “secret psychology”, but in artisticmeans similar to the style of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky: through inner monologue, developed innerdialogue and portrait dynamics. In the psychological descriptions which not seldom are grotesquethe writer’s notions of mysterious powers subjugating the personality, of “tragic sense of love” areconcretized.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: XI
  • Page Range: 129-149
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Russian