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But there was in him such a love of light, sunshine, and living human poetry, such an organic aversion for all that is ugly, or coarse and discordant, that he made himself almost exclusively the poet of the gentler side of human nature.

This is not Turgenev's description of the title character, but is, instead, the description of the author Turgenev as contained in the Introduction to this novel. I haven't seen a better way of saying why I enjoy this author.

That said, Rudin is just not as good as the others, and is undoubtedly why it doesn't make either Bloom's Western Canon or the 1001 List. It is one of his earliest works and perhaps he had not yet honed his craft. Rudin is written predominantly in dialogue and I missed the wonderful prose.

The characterization of Rudin himself is excellent. It is told in how others see him and his affect on them, as well as in Rudin talking about himself - which he does frequently. As with the other Turgenev novels I've read, the plot is small, nearly non-existent.